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Lanchester may refer to:


Places

* Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England *Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University


People

* Ann Margaret Lanchester (fl. 1803), British fashion designer * Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress *
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 ** Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces * Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W * John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist * William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist


Other uses

* Lanchester Motor Company, a now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer ** Lanchester armoured car, of World War I **
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 *
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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