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Surtees
Surtees may refer to: People *Surti Muslims *Surtees (surname), an English surname Places *Surtees Bridge, a road bridge across the River Tees in Stockton-on-Tees Others *Surtees Racing Organisation, a British racing team and constructor *Surtees Society, County Durham antiquarian society See also * * Surtee (other), Surtee * Surte * Surt (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surtees Racing Organisation
The Surtees Racing Organisation was a race team that spent nine seasons (1970 to 1978) as a constructor in Formula One, Formula 2, and Formula 5000. History The team was formed by John Surtees, a four-time List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions by year, 500cc motorcycle champion and the 1964 List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, Formula One champion in 1966 to compete in the newly formed Canadian-American Challenge Cup (CanAm) "unlimited" sports car racing series. Entering as an owner/driver, Surtees won the championship in its first year, driving a Lola T70. Surtees also fielded an entry in another newly formed series in 1969, becoming part of Formula 5000 after taking over a project started by Len Terry and Roger Nathan, and his team constructed its own cars for the first time. His team was successful, winning five races, consecutively at Mondello Park, Koksijde, Circuit Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Snetterton Circuit, Snetterton and Hockenheimring, Hockenheim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surtees Bridge
The Surtees Bridge is a road bridge carrying the A66(T) road east west across the River Tees near Thornaby-on-Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England. The bridge is situated one kilometre upriver from Stockton town centre, just upriver of Surtees Rail Bridge – a rail bridge carrying the Tees Valley Line. Built at a cost of £14.3 million the bridge replaces an earlier Surtees Bridge (1981) that showed signs of distress resulting from excessive settlement. The Surtees Bridge and the A1(M) motorway bridge are the busiest over the River Tees with 55,000 vehicles per day. The river level at this point is held at 2.7 mOD by the Tees Barrage which makes the river here permanently navigable. The Surtees Bridge (1981) The original Surtees Bridge (1981) was a concrete and steel structure built by The Cementation Company with dual two lane carriageways, four intermediate piers, five spans and was 145 m long with 125 m betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surtees (surname)
Surtees is a surname derived from Surteys, which was an Anglo-Norman place name, possibly for Upper Teesdale in Durham, or the Surtees family's estate in that area. People Notable people with this surname include: * Allan Surtees (1924–2000), English actor * Aubone Surtees (1865–1923), English rugby union footballer * Bruce Surtees (1937–2012), American cinematographer * Charles Surtees (1823–1906), English politician * Henry Surtees (1991–2009), British racing driver * Jack Surtees (1911–1992), English professional footballer * John Surtees (1934–2017), English former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and Formula One driver * Nicholas Surtees (born 1977), Scottish rugby player * Robert Smith Surtees (1803–1864), English writer * Robert Surtees (antiquarian) (1779–1834), historian and antiquarian * Robert Surtees (cinematographer) (1906–1985), American cinematographer * Schlitze Surtees (1901–1971), Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surtees Society
The Surtees Society is a text publication society and registered charity (No. 1003812) based in Durham in northern England. The society was established on 27 May 1834 by James Raine, following the death (on 11 February) of the renowned County Durham antiquarian Robert Surtees. Raine and other former friends of Surtees created the society to honour his memory and carry on his legacy, with the focus on publishing documents relating to the region between the Humber estuary and Firth of Forth in the east and the River Mersey and the River Clyde in the west, the region that had once constituted the kingdom of Northumbria.. Membership of the Society is by annual subscription (currently £50). Members receive the book published for the year of subscription. History The Surtees Society was constituted on 27 May 1834 at a meeting held at Durham, and Raine was appointed its first secretary. It was modelled in part on the Scottish Bannatyne Club (founded ) and Maitland Club (founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surtee (other)
Surtee may refer to: People * Fay Surtee Marles (born 1926), Australian civil servant * Ismail K. Surtee, a Malawi politician, Speaker of the National Assembly of Malawi; see List of speakers of the National Assembly of Malawi * Yusuf Surtee, a South African supplier of Madiba shirt A Madiba shirt is a loose-fitting silk shirt, usually adorned in a bright and colourful print. It became known in the 1990s, when Nelson Mandela—then elected President of South Africa—added the item to his regular attire. Mandela popularise ...s to Nelson Mandela * Surtee, a demonym used to refer to person from Surat district, Gujurat, India Other uses * Surtee (horse), a racehorse, winner of the 1992 Ken Russell Memorial Classic, 1992 San Domenico Stakes, 1992 Champagne Classic (BRC), 1993 Victoria Handicap * "Surtee" (episode), a 1969 season 2 number 22 episode 50 of the TV show ''The High Chaparral''; see List of ''The High Chaparral'' episodes See also * * Surtees (disambiguatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surt (other)
Surt may also refer to: Places * Sirte, a city in Libya; also called Surt ** Sirte District, Libya * Surt (volcano), on Jupiter's moon Io * Surt (planet), an exoplanet Other uses * Surtr, a figure in Norse myth, also called Surt See also * * Surte Surte () is a locality situated in Ale Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 5,798 inhabitants in 2010. Surte Church is located in the town. It is located some 15 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Surte became well known for its ... * Surtee * Surtees (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surti Muslims
The term Gujarati Muslim is usually used to signify an Indian Muslim from the state of Gujarat on the western coast of India. Most Gujarati Muslims have the Gujarati language as their mother tongue, but some communities have Urdu as their mother tongue. The majority of Gujarati Muslims are Sunni, with a minority of Shia groups. Gujarati Muslims are very prominent in industry and medium-sized businesses and there is a very large Gujarati Muslim community in Mumbai and Karachi. Having earned a formidable accolade as India's greatest seafaring merchants, the centuries-old Gujarati diaspora is found scattered throughout the Near East, Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere regions everywhere in between Africa and Japan with a notable presence in: Hong Kong, Britain, Portugal, Canada, Réunion, Oman, Yemen, Mozambique, Zanzibar, United Arab Emirates, Burma, Madagascar, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Pakistan, Zambia and East Africa. Throughout the medieval period, Gujarati Musli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surte
Surte () is a locality situated in Ale Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 5,798 inhabitants in 2010. Surte Church is located in the town. It is located some 15 kilometers north of Gothenburg. Surte became well known for its glass works that started production in 1862 and became one of the major mechanized glass works in Sweden. It was bought by in 1960 and shut down in 1978. In Surte, there was a large landslide in 1950, which killed one person and destroyed 30 houses. More houses had to be removed, causing 450 people to lose their homes. It also blocked the river which had frequent ship traffic. Surte was the hometown of Alexander Samuelson. Although he was not the designer, he was the man named on the 1915 design patent for the legendary contour Coca-Cola bottle. The international Grand Master of chess Gideon Ståhlberg, one of the world's strongest players in the 1940s, was born and is buried in Surte. Surte is home to the bandy club Surte BK. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
