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  2. John Gibson (RAF officer) - Wikipedia

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    His mother married James Gibson while his father, still in England, later anglicised his family name to Wickman and started the Coventry machine tool manufacturer A.C. Wickman, of Brighton and Hove. Gibson was educated at various schools in Auckland , including Auckland Grammar School , before going on to attend New Plymouth Boys' High School .

  3. Coventry - Wikipedia

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    Coventry (/ ˈ k ɒ v ən t r i / ⓘ KOV-ən-tree [6] or rarely / ˈ k ʌ v-/ KUV-) [7] is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centuries. Founded in the early Middle Ages, its city status was formally recognised in a charter of 1345 ...

  4. L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd - Wikipedia

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    Wickman alleged that Schuler AG wrongfully terminated their contract for Wickman to visit car makers to market Schuler's panel presses, as their sole representative for four-and-a-half years, even though Wickman had failed to make visits. Clause 7(b) said, ‘It shall be a condition of this agreement that [Wickman] shall send its ...

  5. Banner Lane - Wikipedia

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    Banner Lane is the eponym of Banner Lane Ltd, an Executive Search firm founded at the site in 2020. The recruitment company is based in Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom and specialises in recruiting SC and DV cleared jobs within the UK Defence and Security sector.

  6. Category:Companies based in Coventry - Wikipedia

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    Manufacturing companies based in Coventry (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Companies based in Coventry" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.

  7. Alfred Herbert (company) - Wikipedia

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    The firm, in Roderick Floud's paraphrasing of Herbert, [1] [4] "came into machine tool production by accident when Alfred Herbert secured the agency for a French patent of great value in the manufacture of tubes for the fast expanding cycle trade in Coventry. On the basis of his profits from this patent the company began to make machine tools ...

  8. Carbodies - Wikipedia

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    Carbodies was a taxi design and manufacturing company based in Coventry, England. In its latter years it also traded as London Taxis International and The London Taxi Company. It operated a coachbuilding business on Holyhead Road, Coventry.

  9. Falcon Cycles - Wikipedia

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    In the 1880s, Hotchkiss, Mayo & Meek Ltd was established in Coventry as a manufacturer of bicycles. In 1897, the company name was changed to Coventry-Eagle when John Meek left the company. [1] From 1898, like many bicycle manufacturers they began experimenting by adding small petrol-engines to their heavier bicycle frames.