Lanchester may refer to:
Places
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Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England
*Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of
Coventry University
People
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Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1803), British fashion designer
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Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress
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Frederick W. Lanchester
Frederick William Lanchester LLD, Hon FRAeS, FRS (23 October 1868 – 8 March 1946), was an English polymath and engineer who made important contributions to automotive engineering and to aerodynamics, and co-invented the topic of operations ...
(1868–1946), engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
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Lanchester's laws
Lanchester's laws are mathematical formulae for calculating the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and B as a function of time, wit ...
, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
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Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W
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John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist
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William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist
Other uses
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Lanchester Motor Company
The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer located until early 1931 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. The marque has been unused since the last Lanches ...
, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
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Lanchester armoured car, of World War I
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Lanchester 6×4 armoured car
The Lanchester 6x4 armoured car was a British armoured car with a 6x4 drivetrain produced in limited numbers in the late 1920s and early 1930s. A heavier, more rugged development of the earlier Lanchester 4x2 armoured car, it remained in s ...
, post World War I
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Lanchester submachine gun
The Lanchester is a submachine gun (SMG) manufactured by the Sterling Armaments Company between 1941 and 1945. It is a copy of the German MP28/II and was manufactured in two versions, Mk.1 and Mk.1*; the latter was a simplified version of the or ...
, used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War
See also
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Lancaster (disambiguation) Lancaster may refer to:
Lands and titles
*The County Palatine of Lancaster, a synonym for Lancashire
*Duchy of Lancaster, one of only two British royal duchies
*Duke of Lancaster
*Earl of Lancaster
* House of Lancaster, a British royal dynasty
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