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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 *John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist *William Forster Lanchester (1875–1953), British zoologist Lanchester family * Henry Jones Lanchester (1834–1914), English architect; father of: ** Henry Vaughan Lanchester (1863–1953), architect and brother of Frederick W ** Frederick W. Lanchester (1868–1946), his son, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws (mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces) and founded Lanchester Motor Company **Edith Lanchester (1871–1966), English socialist and suffragette; mother of: ***Waldo Lanchester (1897–1978), British puppeteer **** Muriel Lanchester (née Bell) (1902–1992), British ceramicist and wife of Waldo ***Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), Oscar-nominated English character actres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchester, County Durham
Lanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, west of Durham, England, Durham and from Consett. It had a population at the 2011 Census of 4,054. Although there was a small Drift mining, drift mine on the edge of the village which closed in the 1970s, Lanchester's economy was mainly based on agriculture. It is now a residential village in which a number of housing estates have been developed since the late 1960s. Etymology Lanchester was first known by the name ''Longovicium'' in the 2nd century AD, which is derived from Common Brittonic ''longo-'' ("ship") + ''*wicā-'' ("a Roman vicus"). The ''Lan-'' part of the modern name is from Old English ''lang'' (> "long"), but that may simply have been a reinterpretation of the British Celtic-derived name by Germanic settlers. The second element is ''Chester (placename element), ceaster'' ("a fort; old Roman site"). History The earliest occupation on the site is the Roman Auxiliaries (Roman military), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldo Lanchester
Waldo Sullivan Lanchester (6 May 1897 – 15 December 1978) was a British puppeteer who founded the Lanchester Marionettes (1935–1962), a puppet theatre that was based in Malvern, Worcestershire, Malvern, and later in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote a book on the revival of puppeteering and commissioned George Bernard Shaw to write his last completed play ''Shakes versus Shav'' in 1949. In 1952, Donald W. Seager wrote that "Waldo Lanchester has consistently been associated with all that is best in the puppet theatre." Archibald Henderson (professor), Archibald Henderson called him "England's greatest puppetmaster." Early life Lanchester was the son of James "Shamus" Sullivan (1872–1945) and Edith Lanchester, Edith "Biddy" Lanchester (1871–1966). His younger sister was the actress Elsa Lanchester. Two of the earliest puppets he created were named "Baldo and Belsa", the pet names of himself and his sister Elsa. The family were considered Bohemian, and refused to legalise their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchester 6×4 Armoured Car
The Lanchester 6×4 armoured car was a British armoured car with a 6×4 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 service with Territorial and colonial units until the early 1940s and saw action in the Battle of Malaya. Production history and description In 1927, the Lanchester Motor Company was awarded a contract for a six-wheeled armoured car. By March 1928 two prototypes, D1E1 and D1E2 (the latter equipped with rear doors for a swift exit) were built with different armament and turret shapes, D1E2 also having an additional rear driving position. Following the trials it was realised the existing chassis was insufficiently strong or rigid for such a heavy vehicle driven cross-country. In July 1928 Twenty-two Mk1 production vehicles with an improved chassis and other detail changes were ordered, eighteen with one .5 and one .303 (7.7 mm) Vicke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchester Armoured Car
The Lanchester armoured car was a British armoured car built on the chassis of the Lanchester "Sporting Forty", it saw wide service with the Royal Naval Air Service and British Army during the First World War. The Lanchester was the second most numerous World War I armoured car in British service after the Rolls-Royce armoured car. During World War I, the Austro-Hungarian monarchy also captured a few pieces. Design The Lanchester was a turreted armoured car, built on the chassis of a Lanchester Sporting Forty luxury tourer. The layout of the Lanchester was similar to the Rolls-Royce, with a front mounted engine, crew compartment in the middle and rear cargo deck; the fighting compartment and turret was almost identical to the Rolls-Royce. The engine of the Lanchester was located beside the driver's feet, allowing for a more effective, well sloped frontal armour than the Rolls-Royce. A number of changes were made to the Sporting Forty chassis, including reinforcing to accommo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchester Motor Company
The Lanchester Motor Company Limited is a marque & former British car manufacturer in active trade between 1899 and 1955. Though the Lanchester Motor Company Limited is still registered as an active company and accounts are filed each year, the marque has been dormant since. As of 2014 it is marked as "non-trading". The Lanchester company was located until early 1931 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, and afterwards at Sandy Lane, Coventry England. It was purchased by the Birmingham Small Arms Company, BSA Group at the end of 1930, after which its cars were made by Daimler Company, Daimler on Daimler's Coventry sites. So, with Daimler, Lanchester became part of Jaguar Cars in 1960. In 1990 Ford Motor Company bought Jaguar Cars and it remained in their ownership, and from 2000 accompanied by Land Rover, until they sold both Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors in 2008, who created Jaguar Land Rover as a subsidiary holding company for them. In 2013, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lanchester
George Herbert Lanchester (1874 – 13 February 1970) was an English engineer. He was one of three brothers who played a leading role in the early development of the UK auto-industry. In 1909, following the departure from full-time involvement with the company of his elder brother Frederick, George took over responsibility for the Lanchester Motor Company. Thereafter, while Frederick pursued his own glittering career as one of the leading automotive and aeronautical engineers of the time, it was George who ran the business the brothers had established together. Early years In 1889, at the age of 15, George started an apprenticeship with the Forward Gas Engine Company in Birmingham. His elder brother was already Works Manager with the same company. Four years later, setting a pattern for the future, Frederick left the company to pursue a full-time career as a research scientist, concentrating on the field that would later come to be known as aerodynamics. George, thoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsa Lanchester
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (28 October 1902 – 26 December 1986) was a British actress with a long career in theatre, film and television.Obituary '' Variety'', 31 December 1986. Lanchester studied dance as a child and after the First World War began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade. She met the actor Charles Laughton in 1927, and they were married two years later. She began playing small roles in British films, including the role of Anne of Cleves with Laughton in '' The Private Life of Henry VIII'' (1933). Her success in American films resulted in the couple moving to Hollywood, where Lanchester played small film roles. Her role as the title character in ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935) brought her recognition. She played the lead in '' Passport to Destiny'' (1944) and supporting roles through the 1940s and 1950s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for '' Come to the Stable'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Lanchester
Muriel Lanchester (28 October 1902 - 11 October 1992) was a British ceramicist and co-founder of the puppet theatre company, the '' Lanchester Marionettes''. Lanchester and her husband, Waldo were the first British people to appear on French television, as part of the World's Fair in Paris in 1937. George Bernard Shaw’s final play, ''Shakes versus Shav'', was written for the Lanchester Marionettes in 1949. Personal life Gertrude Muriel Bell was born to parents Thomas Pool Bell (1845-1920) and Gertrude Ann, née Reston (1872-1958). By 1911 she had moved to Cheshire and by 1921 she was living in Colwyn Bay. She moved to Malvern in 1932 to establish a ceramics studio. In 1934 she met puppeteer Waldo Lanchester (1897-1978) while he was looking for a site to set up his puppet theatre for the Malvern Festival. They married in London in July 1935 and lived at Foley House, Malvern until 1951 when they moved to Stratford-upon-Avon. After retiring in 1969 they moved to Wilmcote. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Lanchester
Edith 'Biddy' Lanchester (28 July 1871 – 26 March 1966) was an English socialist, feminist and suffragette. She became well known in 1895 when her family had her incarcerated in an asylum for planning to live with her lover, who was an Irish, working-class labourer. Lanchester later became secretary to Eleanor Marx. Early life Lanchester was born in Hove, Sussex on 28 July 1871, the fifth child of a family of eight. Her parents were Henry Jones Lanchester, an established architect, (1834–1914) and Octavia Ward (1834–1916). Following in their father's footsteps of bourgeois success, three of Edith's brothers became successful in the fields of architecture and engineering. Work After attending the Birkbeck Institution and the Maria Grey training college, Edith first worked as a teacher and then a clerk-secretary working for a firm in the City of London. By 1895 Edith was a confirmed socialist and member of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). In 1897 Lanchester b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry University
Coventry University is a Public university, public research university in Coventry, England. The origins of Coventry University can be linked to the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry School of Design in 1843. It was known as Lanchester Polytechnic from 1970 until 1987, and then as Coventry Polytechnic until it Further and Higher Education Act 1992, gained university status in 1992. Coventry is the larger of the two universities in the city, the other being the University of Warwick. The Coventry University Group operates campuses in Coventry, Scarborough, London and Wrocław. It has two principal campuses: one in the centre of Coventry where the majority of its operations are located, and one in Central London which focuses on business and management courses. Coventry also governs the higher education institutions CU Coventry, CU Scarborough and CU London. Its colleges, which are made up of schools and departments, run around 300 undergraduate and postgraduate courses. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanchester's Laws
Lanchester's laws are mathematical formulas 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, with the function depending only on A and B.Lanchester F.W., ''Mathematics in Warfare'' in ''The World of Mathematics,'' Vol. 4 (1956) Ed. Newman, J.R., Simon and Schuster, 2138–2157; anthologised from ''Aircraft in Warfare'' (1916) In 1915 and 1916 during World War I, M. Osipov and Frederick Lanchester independently devised a series of differential equations to demonstrate the power relationships between opposing forces. Among these are what is known as ''Lanchester's linear law'' (for ancient combat) and ''Lanchester's square law'' (for modern combat with long-range weapons such as firearms). As of 2017 modified variations of the Lanchester equations continue to form the basis of analysis in many of the US Army’s combat simulatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick W
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Given name Nobility = Anhalt-Harzgerode = * Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) = Austria = * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans = Baden = * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden = Bohemia = * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia = Britain = * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain = Brandenburg/Prussia = * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
