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Great Western (car Company)
Great Western can refer to: Locations * Great Western, Victoria, a town in Victoria, Australia * Great Western Divide, a long ridge in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA * Great Western Mountain, a mountain in central Sri Lanka * Great Western Tiers, a collection of small mountain bluffs in Tasmania, Australia * Great Western Woodlands, biodiverse area in South West Australia Railways * Great Western Railway, a UK railway company nationalised in 1948 and that has since lent its name to: ** Great Western Main Line, a principal passenger and freight rail route ** Great Western Railway (train operating company), traded as Great Western Trains until 1998, then First Great Western until 2015 ** Great Western Holdings, a company formed in 1994 to bid (successfully) for the Great Western franchise ** ''Great Western'' was the name of several locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway, from different classes: *** Iron Duke class *** Rover class *** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western, Victoria
Great Western is a town in the east of the Wimmera region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The town is located on the Western Highway, Victoria, Western Highway, in the Shire of Northern Grampians Local government in Australia, local government area, 225 kilometres north west of the state capital, Melbourne. The town has a population of 425. The first European settlement of Australia, European settlers in the Great Western area were sheep graziers in the 1840s and closer settlement began with the discovery of gold during the Victorian gold rush, the Post Office opening on 1 June 1858. . The first vineyards in the Great Western area were established by two French people, Frenchmen who met at the gold diggings at Daylesford, Victoria, Daylesford. Following their example, Joseph Best and his brother Henry established vineyards in 1865. Following Joseph's death in 1888, the property was purchased by Hans Irvine. Irvine imported staff from France and dedicated himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Railway Of Colorado
The Great Western Railway of Colorado operates about of track in Colorado and interchanges with the Union Pacific Railroad as well as the BNSF Railway. It is currently a subsidiary of OmniTRAX but was founded in 1902 to serve the Great Western Sugar Company and other sugar beet and molasses companies in Colorado, and built by another Great Western subsidiary, Loveland Construction Company. It also operated passenger services from 1917 to 1926. Their route consists of a line from Loveland to Johnstown, Colorado, where it splits to Miliken and Longmont. Going north out of Kelim is Windsor where once again the line splits to go to their industrial park and Greeley, or Fort Collins. It has since expanded service to include customers such as Anheuser-Busch, Eastman Kodak and Simplot. See also *Great Western 90, one of Great Western's former locomotives *Great Western 60 References Further reading * External links *GW 296 Colorado railroads Railway companies established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs the Great Western Hospital, a large hospital situated in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, next to junction 15 of the M4 motorway. Performance In the ratings produced by the Healthcare Commission for 2005/2006, the trust scored "good" for the quality of services but "weak" for the management of resources. In 2006 it was announced that the trust would be axing up to 200 jobs, 99 of which were likely to involve redundancy. The Trust was one of the first to use the Picture archiving and communication system film-less x-rays, as part of the NHS's National Programme for IT. It recorded a deficit of £17.4 million in 2013/4 and was expecting to end 2014/5 with a £2.9m deficit, provoking an investigation by Monitor. The Chief Executive said they had to manage a 15% increase in unplanned activity compared to last year, around 300 more unplanned patients each month. The conclusion of the investigation was that the organisation did n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Hospital
The Great Western Hospital is a large hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, near junction 15 of the M4 motorway. It opened in 2002 and is run by the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. History The original hospital in Swindon was the Princess Margaret Hospital, in the Okus suburb to the south of the town, which started providing services to patients in 1960 but was not formally opened by Princess Margaret until April 1966. It has since been fully demolished. The new hospital was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract to replace the services previously provided at the Princess Margaret Hospital and St Margaret's Hospital at Stratton St Margaret in 1999. The architect for the new hospital was Whicheloe Macfarlane, who designed the hospital with a concrete frame. The outside of the building is covered in of cream coloured precast concrete cladding panels which attempt to replicate the appearance of Wiltshire stone. There are six floors providing a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Garment Co
Great may refer to: Descriptions or measurements * Great, a relative measurement in physical space, see Size * Greatness, being divine, majestic, superior, majestic, or transcendent People * List of people known as "the Great" *Artel Great (born 1981), American actor Other uses * ''Great'' (1975 film), a British animated short about Isambard Kingdom Brunel * ''Great'' (2013 film), a German short film * Great (supermarket), a supermarket in Hong Kong * GReAT, Graph Rewriting and Transformation, a Model Transformation Language * Gang Resistance Education and Training Gang Resistance Education And Training, abbreviated G.R.E.A.T., provides a school-based, police officer instructed program that includes classroom instruction and various learning activities. Their intention is to teach the students to avoid gang ..., or GREAT, a school-based and police officer-instructed program * Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT), a cybersecurity team at Kaspersky Lab *'' Great!'', a 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Western Cotton Factory
The Great Western Cotton Factory was opened on a site in Barton Hill, Bristol in to spin and weave cotton into cloth.Richardson, M, 'The Maltreated and the Malcontents' Pamphlet No. 37, Bristol Radical History Group, 2016, page 7 The cotton processed at the factory was brought from America to the port of Liverpool and carried by water to Bristol.Work in Bristol: A series of sketches of the Chief Manufacturers in the city, Bristol Times and Mirror, 1883, page 91 (accessed vi It was the only example of a cotton mill in the south west of England, most other factories being in Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. History The Barton Hill district of Bristol was a rural retreat from the busy city centre up until the early nineteenth century when the digging of the Bristol Feeder Canal brought industries including the Great Western Cotton Company, keen to use the water as transport.Harvey C and Press J, Studies in the Business History of Bristol, Bristol Academic Press, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Combination
The Great Western Combination was a football league in south-central England. History The league was established in 1939, initially as a wartime competition as many other leagues had been abandoned following the outbreak of World War II. Its original membership was amateur clubs from the area west of London.Great Western Combination 1939–1964 Non-League Matters Although it ceased in 1945, it was re-established in 1946 and a second division was added in 1947; this became the reserve division in 1956. The league folded at the end of the 1963–64 season. Champions Member clubs Member clubs during the league's existence included: *AEC (1958–1964) *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Cities
Great Western Cities ( cy, Dinasoedd Mawr y Gorllewin) is a collaborative initiative launched in February 2015 by the cities of Bristol, in England, and Cardiff and Newport, in Wales, to improve cooperation in the area as a city region, and to develop economic and environmental partnerships. The three cities are located on the Severn estuary and are linked by the M4 and M48 road bridges, and by rail via the Severn Tunnel. The joint initiative followed publication of a report in 2014, ''Unleashing Metro Growth'', which proposed greater collaboration between cities and identified the Severn region as a ‘power-house city region’ critical to the UK economy as a whole. At the launch of the Great Western Cities initiative on 4 February 2015, it was said that the cities had a combined economic output of £58 billion, but could improve their competitiveness by better joint working. It was said that "investment in the region must focus on improving connectivity, realising the e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Business And Normal College
The Great Western Business and Normal College (sometimes called "Concordia Normal School and Business College" or "Concordia Business College") located in Concordia, Kansas was a private business college and normal school. The school was founded in 1889 by L. H. Hausam. Records show students attending as late as 1930. The college eventually moved its operations to Webb City, Missouri Alumni * Frank Carlson, governor of Kansas Gallery File:Concordia Normal School and Business College.jpg, Postcard showing original building File:Concordia Business College 1905.png, Graduating class of 1905 File:L. H. Hausam.png, L. H. Hausam Louis Henry Hausam (June 14, 1870–January 13, 1941) was a professor of Penmanship, writing and graphology in the United States. He was president of the Hausam School of Penmanship in Hutchinson, Kansas and founded Great Western Business and ..., founder of the college References Education in Cloud County, Kansas Defunct private univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Brewing Company
The Great Western Brewing Company is an independent brewery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The company currently produces several varieties of beer and hard seltzer, some of which have received international awards for excellence. With annual production capabilities of >300,000 hectolitres annually, it is one of the larger regional brewers in Western Canada. History The brewery's history extends back to 1927, when it was established as the Hub City Brewing Company. In 1930 the plant was renamed the Western Canada Brewing Company, and in 1932 it was changed again to Drewery's Limited. In 1956, the brewery was acquired by O'Keefe Brewing (which would later become Carling O'Keefe) and was operated under that name until 1989, when Carling O'Keefe agreed to a merger with Molson. Plans were initiated by the merged company (which kept the Molson name) to close the brewery and terminate over 40 employees. However, in 1989, a group of sixteen employees and management succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Bank (other)
Great Western Bank may refer to: * Great Western Bank (1919–1997) Great Western Bank (previously known as Great Western Savings & Loan) was a large retail bank that operated primarily in the Western United States. Great Western's headquarters were in Chatsworth, California. At one time, Great Western was one of ..., defunct bank headquartered in California * Great Western Bank (1907–2022), bank headquartered in South Dakota {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Western Arms Company
The Great Western Arms Company (GWA) was founded in Los Angeles, California in 1953 to produce an American-made copy of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver. Colt had discontinued this model in 1940. The Great Western revolver was sold by mail order in the 1950s and early 1960s, and was used in many Western movies and television shows. History Colt’s model 1873 single action “Peacemaker” revolver was iconic by the early 20th century as the ‘gun that won the West’. Colt continued to produce it through the 1930s though it was by then functionally antiquated compared to modern revolvers and pistols. Sales dwindled to almost nothing in the Depression, and when WWII broke out in Europe, Colt dropped the SAA to focus production resources on its military arms contracts. After the war, film and television spurred renewed interest in the SAA but Colt was not immediately persuaded to resume production. In the Los Angeles area an enterprise to produce an SAA copy coalesced ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
