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• Samsung
  ...]. However, the financial situation had Nissan disclose its technology and engineering expertise to SMI. Also, Nissan has supplied SMI with its engines, one of th
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• Lea-Francis
  '''Lea-Francis''' was a motor manufacturing company that began life building bicycles. ...e hands of the Receiver in 1963 leaving Lea-Francis to continue with their engineering business.
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• Wolseley Motor Company
  ...began a joint venture in Tokyo, Japan with Ishikawajiama Ship Building and Engineering. The first Japanese-built Wolseley car rolled off the line in 1922. After W ...eley production was consolidated at [[Cowley, Oxford|Cowley]], and [[badge engineering]] took hold. The first post-war Wolseleys, the similar [[Wolseley 4/50|4/50
  9 KB (1,296 words) - 04:44, 19 February 2007
• Hispano-Suiza
  ...-Suiza''' was an originally Spanish and then Spanish-French automotive and engineering firm best known for their car, engine and weapon designs in the pre-World W ...aircraft engines under the direction of [[Marc Birkigt]]. His solution to building aero engines was unique, instead of machining separate steel cylinders and
  5 KB (853 words) - 00:47, 3 March 2010
• Jaguar D-Type
  ...n of a [[monocoque]] [[chassis]], which not only introduced aircraft-style engineering to competition car design, but also an aeronautical understanding of aerody The new chassis followed aircraft engineering practice, being manufactured according to [[monocoque]] principals. The cen
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• Karl Benz
  ...tember 30, 1860, at age fifteen he passed the entrance exam for mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe which he subsequently attended. He was gradu ...in a scales factory. In 1868 he went to [[Pforzheim]] to work for a bridge building company ''Gebrüder Benckiser Eisenwerke und Maschinenfabrik''. Finally, he
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• Morris
  ...e head of the ''Morris'' sales agency in Oxford, [[Cecil Kimber]], started building sporting versions of ''Morris'' cars, called "[[MG|MG]]" — after the ...s in charge, which led to Austin's domination of the organisation. [[Badge-engineering]] was important to the new company and for many years the several marques w
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• Lotus
  ...ing cars based at Hethel, England. The company is famous for designing and building landmark race and production automobiles of extremely light weight and poss The company is based in East Anglia and was originally formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd. by the influential engineer [[Colin Chapman]], in 1952. The Company's
  18 KB (2,724 words) - 20:38, 15 September 2009
• Gottlieb Daimler
  ...n interest in engineering. The next year, he started studying gunsmithing; building with his teacher, Riedel, a double-gun barrel|barreled gun. ...gineering. In 1852 when eighteen, he finally decided to take up mechanical engineering, and left his hometown. He worked at several firms, not least [[Armstrong-
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• Jordan Motor Car Company
  ...ers. Jordan cars were noted more for attractive styling than for advanced engineering, and not surprisingly, the company's advertising was often more original th ...suppliers. The plant was built in two stages; the first 30,000 square foot building was begun on April 5, 1916 and finished some seven weeks later, while the s
  7 KB (1,077 words) - 06:30, 19 February 2007
• Alfred P. Sloan
  Sloan was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied electrical engineering and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1895. Whil ...office in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Rockefeller Center, now known as the GE Building.[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=13095] He retired as GM ch
  11 KB (1,708 words) - 20:02, 20 August 2009
• Lola
  ...[[Eric Broadley]] and based in Huntingdon, United Kingdom. Lola started by building small front-engined sports cars, and branched out into [[Formula Junior]] c ...ries were also built, competing with [[Chevron Cars Ltd|Chevron]], [[March Engineering|March]] and others. [[Alain de Cadenet]]'s Le Mans 'specials' tended to be
  18 KB (2,879 words) - 10:15, 18 February 2010
• Connecting rod
  When building a high performance engine, great attention is paid to the con rods, elimina ....edu/e-books.php e-book library] of classic texts on mechanical design and engineering.
  8 KB (1,277 words) - 08:01, 26 July 2009
• Chrysler Airflow
  ...t full-size American production car to use [[streamlining]] as a basis for building a sleeker automobile, one less susceptible to air resistance. Chrysler made The basis for the Chrysler Airflow was rooted in Chrysler Engineering's [[Carl Breer]]'s curiosity about how forms affected their movement throug
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• William C. Durant
  In 1904, Durant began executing his vision of building the car industry, starting from virtually nothing. He utilized his sales s ...t was made up of Hyatt Roller Bearing, New Departure Manufacturing, Dayton Engineering Laboratories (later Delco Electronics Corporation), Harrison Radiator Corpo
  8 KB (1,238 words) - 11:35, 8 February 2010
• British Leyland
  ...ompeting marques which were in fact selling substantially similar "[[badge engineering|badge engineered]]" cars. To this was added the competition from yet more, ...nd has not been -reassigned as of July 2006 to a different company. The UK building materials supplier [[Wolseley plc]] owns the rights to the Wolseley name fo
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• Chery Automobile
  .... Bosch is helping Chery design modern transmissions. [[Lotus Cars|Lotus Engineering]] (known for their racing car chassis expertise) is aiding Chery in car des ...s told they was planinng to build and found a factory in Turkey.In case of building this factory, it will easy for Chery to reach all europen people, logictics
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• Rootes
  ...panies, and became one of the earliest advocates of the policy of "[[badge engineering]]". Hillman was intended to be the basic brand, Singer slightly more upmark ...ificates" (IDCs). By their use, it was intended to concentrate new factory building in depressed areas of Britain. Thus, Rootes were not allowed to expand thei
  9 KB (1,449 words) - 01:08, 20 February 2007
• Exhaust system
  In most production engines, the '''[[manifold (automotive engineering)|manifold]]''' is an assembly designed to collect the exhaust gas from two ...dust when the truck is driving on a dry dusty unmade surface such as on a building site.
  10 KB (1,599 words) - 08:07, 5 August 2009
• Biobutanol
  ...ere biomass and organic waste can be heated to decompose matter into basic building blocks and then reformulated into fuel. The process is analogous to hydroc ...uel.<ref>[http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/kinematic-viscosity-d_397.html Engineering Toolbox]</ref>
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