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Former head office of the Crédit Communal de Belgique, at the corner of rue de Ligne and rue de la Banque in Brussels The Crédit Communal de Belgique ( Dutch : Gemeentekrediet van België , lit. ' Municipal Credit of Belgium ' ) was a Belgian financial institution, established in 1860 and eventually merged with Crédit Local de France in 1996 ...
Volkswagen also has three joint ventures in China, FAW-Volkswagen, SAIC Volkswagen and Volkswagen Anhui. The company has operations in roughly 150 countries, and it has 100 production facilities across 27 countries. Volkswagen was founded in Berlin in 1937 and incorporated in Wolfsburg to manufacture the car that would become known as the ...
Volkswagen originally meant to replace them with the Golf's inline-four engine but the cost of re-engineering both car and engine made them opt for updating the flat-four instead. [14] An overhead-cam design was mooted but rejected as a willingness to rev was considered to be of less importance than low-end flexibility and low cost. [ 14 ]
TAS went bankrupt in 1995. Factory bombed during the Bosnian War, subsequently rebuilt in 1998, additional S code assigned for Volkswagen Sarajevo d.o.o. in the new country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. All are SKDs. New company established in 1998 as Volkswagen Sarajevo d.o.o., which was now 58% owned by VW & 42% owned by UNIS. In 2001, Bosnia's ...
The Volkswagen LT is the largest light commercial panel van produced by Volkswagen (and subsequently Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles as of 1996) from 1975 to 2006, before being replaced by the Crafter. Two generations were produced.
Introduced in 1990, the T4 was the first Volkswagen van to have a front-mounted, water-cooled engine. Prompted by the success of similar moves with their passenger cars, Volkswagen had toyed with the idea of replacing their air-cooled, rear-engined T2 vans with a front-engined, water-cooled design in the late 1970s.
The Belgian government coalition agreement of 8 May 1988 foresaw a combination of public-sector banks, resulting in legislation of 17 June 1991 that mandated the integration of the Crédit Communal de Belgique, Société Nationale de Crédit à l'Industrie, and OCCH. The Crédit Communal, however, ensured that these provisions were not implemented.
In restaurants, à la carte (/ ɑː l ə ˈ k ɑːr t /; French: [a la kaʁt]; lit. ' at the card ') [1] is the practice of ordering individual dishes from a menu in a restaurant, as opposed to table d'hôte, where a set menu is offered. [2] It is an early 19th century loan from French meaning "according to the menu". [3] [4]