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• Robert Bosch GmbH
  * Industry and building services engineering * Safety engineering
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• UMM (União Metalo-Mecânica)
  ...ineering firm [[Cournil]], called Entrepreneur. The Cournil Entrepreneur's building rights were acquired by the Portuguese company União Metalo-Mecânica, par UMM stopped building cars for private customers in 1993, but kept on taking large orders from mi
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• Spaceframe
  ...primarily in using them to make rigid frames for nautical and aeronautical engineering although few if any were realised. Buckminster Fuller's focus was [[archite [[Category:Building engineering]]
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• Derek Bennett
  ...in model aircraft. He took an apprenticeship in mechanical and electrical engineering before becoming a mechanic, but he soon fell in with motor racing scene in Bennett soon graduated to building, maintaining and also driving racing cars for himself and other local enthu
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• Tickford
  '''Tickford''' is an automobile engineering, coachbuilding and [[car tuning|tuning]] company famous for the 140mph Tick ...eering projects for major manufacturers, gained most publicity from adding engineering and tuning to its coachbuilder roots allowing it to develop special product
  5 KB (830 words) - 00:46, 14 March 2007
• Kégresse track
  ...y a licence to produce them. This resulted in the Army Ordnance Department building a prototype in 1939. In September 1940 it went into production with the [[M [[Category:Engineering vehicles]]
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• Ferdinand Piëch
  Piëch graduated from the ETH Zurich in 1962 with a degree in mechanical engineering, having written a Master Thesis about the development of a [[Formula One]] ...o model was a turbocharged 5 cylinder in-line unit. Piëch had a small engineering company in the time between leaving [[Porsche|Porsche AG]] and joining [[Au
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• Tom Walkinshaw Racing
  ..., designing and engineering the [[Jaguar XJ220]] and [[Jaguar XJR-15]] and building the [[Aston Martin DB7]], as well as establishing a partnership with [[Gene ...o build a replacement for the elderly [[Rover 45]]/[[MG ZS]]; they were re-engineering the [[Rover 75]]/[[MG ZT]] into a smaller car. The demise of Arrows and TWR
  4 KB (670 words) - 04:00, 18 December 2010
• Lexington
  ...Kentucky race horse promoter, Several months later the company outgrew its building. In 1910, a group of Connersville businessmen noted that the community had ...color bricks. Four years later the company built a 106,050 sq.ft. assembly building just west of the office.
  7 KB (1,093 words) - 08:11, 14 June 2007
• Max Friz
  ...d at the Royal Building Trade School in Stuttgart-Esslingen furthering his engineering skills. In 1906 he was employed by [[Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft]], in th
  3 KB (432 words) - 07:16, 14 October 2010
• Arturo Merzario
  ...s Racing Cars|Williams]], [[Fittipaldi (constructor)|Fittipaldi]], [[March Engineering|March]], [[Walter Wolf Racing|Wolf]], [[Merzario]] | ...struggled in Formula One for three years, initially with March cars before building their own chassis, and later moving down to [[Formula Two]].
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• Karl Friedrich Rapp
  ...hildhood and adolescent years. However, it is known that Rapp learned the engineering profession and was employed by [[Züst]] automotive company from approx. 19 ...construction and sale of machinery and equipment in the areas of aircraft engineering and operation of airfields and aerodromes.
  5 KB (701 words) - 07:00, 18 March 2009
• Lotus Mark IV
  ...by [[Colin Chapman]] built on a [[Austin 7]] chassis. Chapman’s success at building trials cars brought another previous customer, Mike Lawson, to order a seco ...r requests for more cars, led Chapman and Michael Allen to establish Lotus Engineering in a disused stable in Hornsey.<ref>Setright, L.J.K, "Lotus: The golden mea
  3 KB (437 words) - 08:20, 29 October 2010
• Dragon Automobile Company
  .... Dragon also enlisted the services of famed racing driver Joe Tracy as an engineering consultant and test driver. ...n Auto Exchange of Philadelphia bought everything, and presumably finished building the last 50 Dragons.
  4 KB (566 words) - 06:59, 19 February 2007
• Anzani
  ...7 he set up a small workshop in Paris with three staff and while they were building his engines he designed a hydrofoil powered by one of his engines and prope ...'''British Vulpine Engine Company ''' and then again as '''British Anzani Engineering Company''' concentrating on small engines and car and motorcycle powerplant
  4 KB (539 words) - 02:59, 11 April 2010
• General Motors Canada
  ...]]' Canadian division. Its national headquarters office, Canadian Regional Engineering Centre, and main manufacturing plants are located in Oshawa, Ontario. GM Ca General Motors of Canada opened its new head office building on the shore of Lake Ontario in 1989. It is a fixture on Highway 401 and us
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• Colin Chapman
  ...iefly joined the Royal Air Force. His knowledge of the latest aeronautical engineering techniques would prove vital towards achieving the major automotive technic ...1950s Chapman progressed through the motor racing formulae, designing and building a series of racing cars, sometimes to the point of being in limited product
  10 KB (1,631 words) - 15:55, 4 October 2009
• Knockhill
  ...mplete resurfacing of the track, along with the addition of a Race Control building and a Medical Centre.
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• Albion Motors
  ...known name in the motor industry. Albions were renowned for their superior engineering and reliability; their slogan "Sure as the Sunrise" was known across the gl ...in [[Arrol-Johnston]]). The factory was originally on the first floor of a building in Finnieston Street, Glasgow and had only seven employees. In 1903 the com
  7 KB (951 words) - 05:26, 19 February 2007
• Graham-Paige
  ...] and [[Ford Model TT|TT]] vehicles into trucks. That lead to the brothers building their trucks using engines of various manufacturers. Eventually they settle For engineering, the rear kickup on the chassis frame was eliminated by the adoption of a '
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