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Cammell Laird F
Cammell may refer to: *British Rail Metro-Cammell Lightweight, lightweight Diesel multiple units introduced in 1955 *Cammell Laird, British shipbuilders during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries **Cammell Laird 1907 F.C., football club based at Kirklands Stadium in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England **Cammell Laird Gibraltar, ship repair facility at Gibraltar **Cammell Laird Social Club, the ninth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit in 2002 *MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC), electric multiple unit owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation *Metro-Cammell, Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons *Metro Cammell Weymann, formed in 1932 to produce bus bodies *NZR RM class (Sentinel-Cammell), steam-powered railcar operated by the New Zealand Railways Department People with the surname *Donald Cammell (1934–1996), Scottish film director *Reginald Archibald Cammell (1886–1911), first British military aviator to di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Rail Metro-Cammell Lightweight
In 1955, Metropolitan Cammell produced its first lightweight diesel multiple units, the prototypes of what were to become British Rail's most successful and longest-lived ''First Generation'' DMU type, the Class 101. Operations The seven London Midland Region sets (formed DMBS + DTCL) were used on the Bury-Bacup line services, while the other sets (formed DMBS + DTSL) were all allocated to the Eastern Region. These sets were used on a variety of lines in East Anglia as well as the (then) non-electrified lines in Essex (Romford-Upminster and Wickford-Southminster branches). A unit consisting of 79066 and 79282 worked the last passenger service on the Aldeburgh Branch Line in 1966.Great Eastern Journal No 64 (Great Eastern Railway Society) Withdrawal They proved to be very successful, but with line closures continuing through the 1960s, including many in East Anglia where the type was first used, their non-standard coupling arrangements left them prone to early withdrawal, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company. It was formed from the merger of Laird Brothers of Birkenhead and Johnson Cammell & Co of Sheffield at the turn of the twentieth century. The company also built railway rolling stock until 1929, when that side of the business was separated and became part of the Metro-Cammell, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage & Wagon Company. History Formation from merger of Laird Company and Cammell & Co. The Laird Company was founded by William Laird (shipbuilder), William Laird, who had established the Birkenhead Iron Works in 1824. When he was joined by his son, John Laird (shipbuilder), John Laird in 1828, their first ship was an iron barge. John realised that the techniques of making boilers could be applied to making ships. The company soon became pre-eminent in the manufacture of iron ships and also made major advances in propulsion. In 1860, John Laird was joined in the business by his three sons, renaming the company John Laird, Sons & Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammell Laird 1907 F
Cammell may refer to: *British Rail Metro-Cammell Lightweight, lightweight Diesel multiple units introduced in 1955 *Cammell Laird, British shipbuilders during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries **Cammell Laird 1907 F.C., football club based at Kirklands Stadium in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England **Cammell Laird Gibraltar, ship repair facility at Gibraltar **Cammell Laird Social Club, the ninth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit in 2002 *MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC), electric multiple unit owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation *Metro-Cammell, Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons *Metro Cammell Weymann, formed in 1932 to produce bus bodies * NZR RM class (Sentinel-Cammell), steam-powered railcar operated by the New Zealand Railways Department People with the surname *Donald Cammell (1934–1996), Scottish film director *Reginald Archibald Cammell Reginald Archibald Cammell (10 January 1886 &nda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammell Laird Gibraltar
Gibdock is a shipyard in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. It formerly operated as a Royal Navy Dockyard. Royal Navy Dockyard HM Dockyard, Gibraltar was first developed in the 18th century. After the Capture of Gibraltar, victualling facilities were provided from a small quay around what is now the North Mole, but a lack of berths prevented further development. In the 1720s, however, the building of the South Mole was accompanied by the establishment of a small dockyard facility consisting of a careening wharf, mast house and various workshops. The yard remained relatively small in scale for a century and a half, although coaling facilities were added in the 1840s. In 1871 Captain Augustus Phillimore made the proposal that a new naval dockyard should be constructed in Gibraltar. Phillimore's scheme lay dormant in the Admiralty for 22 years before it was put to Parliament in 1895. The idea was to take five years and just under £1.5m pounds. In 1896 the scheme w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cammell Laird Social Club
''Cammell Laird Social Club'' is the ninth album released by Birkenhead-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, in September 2002. Critical reception * Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "''Cammell Laird Social Club'' is proof that for all their supposed indolence, Half Man Half Biscuit remain one of the sharpest and most satisfying bands in the U.K. indie scene". Track listing Notes * The album title parodies those of the film and album ''Buena Vista Social Club'', a 1999 project by Ry Cooder about a group of Cuban musicians * Cammell Laird, formerly a major shipbuilder, is a company located in Birkenhead. * Cammell Laird Social Club is a working men's club located in Rock Ferry, near Birkenhead. * "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" is a near-quotation from the poem "Since 1939" by the American poet Robert Lowell: "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train". * San Antonio is a town in Ibiza, Spain k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC)
The East Rail line Metro Cammell EMU (also known as Mid-Life Refurbishment Train, ; or MLR Train) was a model of electric multiple unit built in 1980–1990 by Metro-Cammell for the original Kowloon–Canton Railway (now the East Rail line) in Hong Kong. The 29 sets were owned by and were originally operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC). They were operated by MTR Corporation (MTRC) after it merged with KCRC in 2007. Although another set of EMU trains from the same manufacturer operate on some of MTR's own lines, there are some significant differences between the two models, with the Metro Cammell EMUs of the original MTR being known as the '' Modernization Train''. The trains were delivered in several phases. The different phases of this series of train have entitled with different model numbers, including: 3094 stock, K01 stock, K03 stock and K05 stock. Regardless, all model numbers have an identical appearance. After the rail merger, the KCR logos on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro-Cammell
Metro-Cammell, formally the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company (MCCW), was an English manufacturer of railway carriages, locomotives and railway wagons, based in Saltley, and subsequently Washwood Heath, in Birmingham. Purchased by GEC Alsthom in May 1989, the Washwood Heath factory was closed in 2005. The company designed and built trains for the railways in the United Kingdom and overseas, including the Mass Transit Railway of Hong Kong, Kowloon–Canton Railway (now East Rail line), the Channel Tunnel, and the Tyne and Wear Metro, and locomotives for Malaysia's Keretapi Tanah Melayu. Diesel and electric locomotives were manufactured for South African Railways, Nyasaland Railways, Malawi, Nigeria, Trans-Zambezi Railway and Pakistan. DMUs were supplied to Jamaica Railway Corporation and the National Railways of Mexico. The vast majority of London Underground rolling stock manufactured in mid-20th century was produced by the company. It also designed and built ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Cammell Weymann
Metro Cammell Weymann Ltd. (MCW) was once a major contributor in transportation manufacturing in the UK and Europe. It was established in 1932 by Metro-Cammell's bus bodybuilding division and Weymann Motor Bodies to produce bus bodies. MCW bus bodies were built in Metro-Cammell's and Weymann's factories until 1966 when Weymann's factory in Addlestone was closed (the Metro-Cammell and Weymann brand names were discontinued in the same year). From 1977 onward MCW also built bus chassis. In 1989 the Laird Group decided to sell its bus and rail divisions. No buyer for all of the subdivisions could be found so each product was sold separately to various companies interested in its assets. The Metrorider was bought by Optare who relaunched it as the MetroRider; the Metrobus design was bought by DAF (chassis) and Optare (body), who jointly reworked it into the Optare Spectra. The Metroliner design was acquired by Optare though not pursued. The Metrocab was bought by Reliant. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NZR RM Class (Sentinel-Cammell)
The NZR RM class Sentinel-Cammell was a steam-powered railcar operated by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). It was the only one of its type to operate in New Zealand, and one of only two steam railcars trialled in the country; the other was the Clayton steam railcar. Overview In the early 20th century, NZR began experiments with railcars as an option to replace unprofitable regional locomotive-hauled carriage expresses and to provide efficient passenger service on rural branch lines that were served solely by slow mixed trains that carried both goods and passengers. Such mixed trains had slow schedules as they had to load and unload freight regularly, making their stops longer than passenger service would normally require. In 1925, a steam railcar was ordered from the Sentinel Waggon Works of Shrewsbury and Metro-Cammell of Birmingham, and when it entered revenue service, it was the first railcar to do so in the Auckland Region. It subsequently operated outside this r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Cammell
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film ''Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed with Nicolas Roeg. Biography Early years Donald Cammell was born in the Outlook Tower on Castlehill, on the approach to Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. He was the elder son of the poet and writer Charles Richard Cammell (who wrote a book on occultist Aleister Crowley) and Iona Macdonald. His middle name Seton came from his godfather, the Scottish naturalist Seton Gordon. He was educated at Shrewsbury House School and Westminster School. Brought up in a bohemian atmosphere, Donald Cammell was raised in an environment he described as "filled with magicians, metaphysicians, spiritualists and demons" including Aleister Crowley. Painting career Cammell was a precociously gifted painter, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy at the ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Archibald Cammell
Reginald Archibald Cammell (10 January 1886 – 17 September 1911) was an early British military aviator Early Aviators website and the first to be killed on active service. Early life 
Cammell was born in in Scotland in 1886, the oldest of three children of Katherine Marion ''née'' Orr (1860–1947) and Archibald Allan Cammell (1856–1911), an old Etonian formerly of the 21st Foot but serving as a lieutenant in the 14th Hussars when the couple ...
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