Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame ( after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS ) was that it had many of the features of the original " Compiler Compiler ".

His top auction price was $ 20. 8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie's Imp / Mod sale in November 2010, when " Violon et guitare " sold for $ 28. 6 million.

This was test flown in the Imp, but Pobjoy decided to form his own company and his collaboration with Parnall ceased.

The Hillman Husky estate version of the Hillman Imp was unusual in being a rear-engined estate.

" When she was popular, she was known as " The Biograph Girl ," " The Imp Girl ," and " The Girl of a Thousand Faces.

Rosemary Smith ( Hillman Imp ) was also disqualified from sixth place, after winning the Coupe des Dames, the ladies ' class.

Construction of the car factory began in 1961 to produce the Hillman Imp, a revolutionary small car which went into production when the factory was opened on 2 May 1963, and was not discontinued until 1976.

The engines tested was Volvo B18, Ford V4, Triumph 1300, Lancia V4 engine, Opel, Volkswagen and Hillman Imp.

Though Susan was previously infatuated with rocker Imp Y Celyn ( Soul Music ), Thief of Time ended with an unspecified " perfect moment " between Susan and Lobsang Ludd, the new anthropomorphic personification of Time.

This was part of the order placed in April by the China Aviation Supplies Imp.

This was the object of the 1891 story The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson, which told of an imp contained in a bottle that would grant the owner their every wish, the catch being that the owner's soul would be sent to hell if they didn't sell the bottle to a new owner before their death.

The Linwood car plant manufactured the Hillman Imp, a competitor to BMC's Mini, and provided up to 9, 000 jobs during peak production but was closed by Peugeot-Citroen in 1981.

The Imp itself was underdeveloped, and the aforementioned build quality and unreliability problems, coupled with buyer apathy towards the quirky design was reflected in poor sales.

By the mid-1960s, Rootes was progressively taken over by the Chrysler Corporation of the United States, following huge losses amid the commercial failure of the troubled Imp.

Chrysler UK soldiered on with a range of worthy but increasingly outmoded rear-wheel drive family cars like the Hillman Avenger ( introduced in 1970 ) and Hillman Hunter ( introduced in 1966 ), while the Imp – which by now had most of its teething problems ironed out – was largely ignored by the new management.

The Imp was finally laid to rest in 1976, and the Hunter followed it three years later ( although it continued to be produced in Iran ).

A complete departure in 1963 was the Hillman Imp using a Coventry Climax all alloy, 875 cc rear engine and built in a brand new factory in Linwood, Scotland.

Following the Hillman Imp, consideration was given to developing a larger rear-engined car, but this concept was dismissed, and the engineering settled on for the new car was more conventional and closer to the layout of the existing Audax series ( which included the previous Hillman Minx ).

* P. A. Yeomans, inventor of the Bunyip Slipper Imp, a plough for developing watersheds

After absorbing Bond Cars in 1969, which had also been a maker of three-wheeler cars ( though in their case with Hillman Imp 875 cc rear engines ) Reliant used the Bond name for the iconic 1970s Bond Bug, a sporty three-wheeler designed by the Ogle designer Tom Karen.

The story follows the short-lived but glamorous musical career of " The Band with Rocks In ", a group of musicians who become famous after their leader, Imp Y Celyn a. k. a. ' Buddy ' ( Buddy Holly: the name is Welsh for " bud of the holly "), becomes possessed by the essence of an addictive new music dubbed ' Music With Rocks In '.

In 1963, Rootes introduced the Hillman Imp, a compact rear engined saloon with an innovative all-aluminium OHC engine, based on a Coventry Climax engine design ( originally used for a fire pump ).

However the engine used for the Imp differed considerably from the original Climax engine, for instance having an entirely different cylinder head.

The Imp was a massive and expensive leap of faith for Rootes.

In the end a complex schedule of trains shifting completed cars and raw castings down south and trains loaded with engine – gearbox assemblies and many other Ryton sourced goods ran north for the duration of Linwood Imp production.

On the other hand the Imp was seen as a " Scottish car " and was popular north of the border .. Later the Imp was allowed to evolve from a revolutionary new car intended for Rootes customers who intended to buy their wives a second car, a quality small car with some above average features at that, into a kind of ultra cheap car with cheaply, even some poorly executed, design features on offer as a kind of British Skoda.

The earlier Imp had won plaudits for the ergonomic excellence of its dash-board / fascia, and the replacement of it reflected similar trends apparent in several new and modified UK models at the time, undertaken in the name of " production rationalization ": on the Imp the more modern arrangement was seen by some as a missed opportunity.

The huge investment in both the Imp and the Linwood production plant proved to be one of the reasons for the undoing of Rootes Group, and its commercial failure fuelled the huge losses suffered although the main reason for Rootes Group losses were industrial unrest and the effects of the forthcoming cooperation with Chrysler Corporation of the USA.

A year later, ahead of the 1968 London Motor Show, the recommended retail prices of most Imp models were reduced for the domestic market by more than 4 %, despite the general price inflation affecting the UK.

Chrysler stewardship was blamed by some for the demise of the Imp in March 1976, after fewer than 500, 000 had been built and the entire empire collapsed two years later, when it became part of Peugeot.

The " Hillman Husky " name was resurrected in 1967 for an Imp based estate car

* Imp, short for members of the Empire (" Imperials ") from Star Wars Galaxies and various Star Wars games

In its automotive guise as the FWMA it was less successful than the FWC when used by Lotus cars, but was eventually adapted by Rootes to provide the lightweight engine for the Hillman Imp.

While he's possessed by an almost pathological impulsiveness, denominated by his brother Bob " The Imp of the Perverse ," Jack also exhibits a surprising capacity for loyalty, mercy, and even, at times, mawkish sentimentality.

The purpose of the Act was to allow the Commonwealth of Australia to retain the original copy of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 ( Imp ), which the British government had loaned for the celebration in 1988 of the bicentenary of British settlement in Australia.

* Nine New Plays for Children ( includes The Whisker, The Moon, Cinderella " At Home ," The Sampler, Three Naughty Imps, The Test, Sleeping Beauty, Father Christmas Comes to Supper, and Surprise, the Imp ), illustrations by Eleanor L. Halsey, Nelson ( New York, NY ), 1934.

It was renamed as the Hillman Imp Van in October 1968, with total production reaching 18, 194 units prior to it being phased out in July 1970.

The 700, 000 litres ( 154, 000 Imp gal / 185, 000 US gal ) of Imperial Pole Treating Oil that had escaped from a ruptured, derailed tank car contained naphthalene and other polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons listed as " highly toxic " and suspected of being carcinogens.

The new Ford cab was used again in April 1966 with a new version of the Carrimore Car Transporter ( 1138 ) which had been re-designed to carry up to six Corgi cars, and which also featured in Gift Set 41 along with six cars ; Ford Cortina Estate ( 440 ), Rover 2000 ( 252 ), Hillman Imp ( 251 ), Mini Cooper De-Luxe ( 249 ), Austin Seven ( 225 ) and Mini Cooper Monte Carlo 1966 ( 321 ).

Unusually, to attain balanced handling, the Imp actually used swing axle geometry at the front, however this initially led to too much understeer and the camber was later reduced by lowering the pivot points.

The Imp used a derivative of the Climax FWMA engine whereas the Lotus cars used an FWMC engine which had an entirely different cylinder head.

998 cc Imp engines were also used in 3-wheeled racing sidecars in the 1970s and 1980s.

* Imp, popular pet used by Warlocks in World of Warcraft

* A short description of some optimisation techniques used in the PDP11 Imp Compiler

The Lincoln Imp is also the mascot of the college boat club, an image of which is used to decorate the oars and jerseys of the men's 1st VIII.

This two-seater coupé had a glass fibre body bolted to a tube chassis and used Imp rear and Triumph front suspension.