M56 or M-56 may refer to:
Roads
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M56 motorway
The M56 motorway, also known as the North Cheshire motorway, serves the Cheshire and Greater Manchester areas of England. It runs east to west from junction 4 of the M60 at Gatley, south of Manchester, to Dunkirk, approximately north of Chester ...
, a motorway in England
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M56 Lena highway (Russia)
A360 Lena Highway or The Amur-Yakutsk Highway (russian: Амуро-Якутская автомобильная дорога or russian: Амуро-Якутская автомагистраль) is a federal highway in Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in ...
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M56 Kolyma Highway
The R504 Kolyma Highway (russian: Федеральная автомобильная дорога «Колыма», ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road throu ...
, Russia
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M56 (Cape Town)
The City of Cape Town (Cape Town metropolitan area) like most South African metropolitan areas, uses Numbered routes in South Africa, Metropolitan or "M" routes for important intra-city routes, a layer below National (N) roads and Regional (R) ro ...
, a Metropolitan Route in Cape Town, South Africa
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M56 (Johannesburg)
The M56 is a short metropolitan route in Greater Johannesburg, South Africa. It connects Boksburg with the northern part of Springs via Brakpan.
Route
The M56 begins at a junction with the M46 Route (Leeuwpoort Street; Jubilee Road) in th ...
, a Metropolitan Route in Johannesburg, South Africa
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M-56 (1919–1957 Michigan highway), a former state highway in Michigan in the Monroe area
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M-56 (1971–1987 Michigan highway), another former state highway in Michigan in the Flint area
Guns
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M56 Howitzer, a Yugoslav copy of the M101A1 howitzer
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M56 Scorpion, an unarmoured American self-propelled anti-tank gun
* M56 Smart Gun, a fictional weapon used in
''Aliens'' (film) and related media
* Zastava
M56 submachine gun, a Yugoslavian submachine gun
Other
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Messier 56, a globular cluster in the constellation Lyra
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M56 Coyote, Humvee smoke generator
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BMW M56, a straight-6 automobile engine
* The core of the
ATI Radeon Mobility X1600 graphics processing unit
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M-56 steel helmet, designed in East Germany in 1956
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Infiniti M
The Infiniti M is a line of mid-size luxury (executive) cars from the Infiniti luxury division of Nissan. From 2013 (model year 2014) on it has been marketed as the Infiniti Q70, reflecting the company's new naming scheme.
The first iteration was ...
56, a Japanese luxury car
* A shortened designation for American
M-1956 Load-Carrying Equipment
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