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* British Aircraft Corporation ( 1959 / 1960 – 1977 ), British aviation company
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In 1994, Raytheon merged Beechcraft with the Hawker product line it had acquired in 1993 from British Aerospace, forming Raytheon Aircraft Company.
British Aerospace was a combination of major aircraft companies British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley and others.
Saab Military Aircraft and British Aerospace ( now BAE Systems ) formed in 1995 the joint venture company Saab-BAe Gripen AB, to manufacture, market and support Gripen internationally.
After that, in the shakeup of British aircraft manufacturing, Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) became a part of the British Aircraft Corporation and the individual manufacturing heritage names were lost.
In 1960 the aircraft interests were merged with those of the Bristol, English Electric Company and Hunting Aircraft to form the British Aircraft Corporation.
Under the terms of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act BAC was officially nationalised in 1977 to become part of the British Aerospace group, which exists today in the guise of BAE Systems.
The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers ' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders.
* Concorde, a supersonic transport built by Aérospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation The introduction of the GNAT compiler and the Ada 95 and 2005 standards has to some extent mitigated the affordability problem.
Enfield has also narrated various TV documentaries such as the Discovery Wings channel " Classic British Aircraft ".
* ADC Aircraft, a British firm established in March 1920
* Concorde ( with British Aircraft Corporation )
This called for the nationalisation and merger of the British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics and Scottish Aviation.
Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.
Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.
* Gloster Aircraft Company, a former British aircraft manufacturer
The Aircraft Manufacturing Company Limited ( Airco ) was a British aircraft manufacturer operating from 1912 to 1920.
Auster Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1938 to 1961.
Project Cancelled: British Aircraft That Never Flew.
In 1959 Bristol Aircraft merged with several major British aircraft companies to form the British Aircraft Corporation ( BAC ), and Bristol Aero Engines merged with Armstrong Siddeley to form Bristol Siddeley.
British and Corporation
In the autumn of 1959, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented a series of talks by four scientists competent in cosmology.
* Associated British Corporation, a former British film and television company
* The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ), sometimes called the Beeb or Auntie Beeb
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.
It originated as a nationalised industry, the British Steel Corporation ( BSC ), formed in 1967.
Politics and Steel in Britain, 1967-1988: The Life and Times of the British Steel Corporation ( 1990 )
* British Steel Corporation, 1988 Competition Commission report
*" Cuba's health diplomacy ", British Broadcasting Corporation, February 25, 2010.
* Commonwealth Development Corporation ( formerly the Colonial Development Corporation ), a British development organisation
The situation was greatly complicated by the large number of landowners involved: the PLA, the Greater London Council ( GLC ), the British Gas Corporation, five borough councils, British Rail and the Central Electricity Generating Board.
FNC is carried in the Republic of Ireland by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC's parent ( News Corporation ).
FNC is also carried in the United Kingdom by the British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) satellite-television network ( Sky ), which is 40-percent owned by FNC parent News Corporation.
He had his second majorly successful venture with the British firm Burma Corporation, again producing silver, lead and Zinc in large quantities at the Namtu Bawdwin Mine, where he caught malaria in 1907.
Imperial Chemical Industries ( ICI ) was a British chemical company, taken over by a number of chemical companies, including Huntsman Corporation, a United States-based company, and AkzoNobel, a Dutch conglomerate, two of the largest chemical producers in the world.
The company was founded in December 1926 from the merger of four companies: Brunner Mond, Nobel Explosives, the United Alkali Company, and British Dyestuffs Corporation.
* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.
The Beeb's ( British Broadcasting Corporation ) ( BBC ) institutionalized leftism would be easier to tolerate if the corporation was a little more honest about it ".
Even though Mauritius was a British colony, the British Overseas Airways Corporation ( B. O. A. C ) began to come to Mauritius only from 1962.
British and 1959
`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
British Medical Journal, Jan. 3, 1959, 1 ( 5113 ): 1 – 6.
In 1959 he contributed to the British arts review X magazine ( other contributors included Bacon, Freud, Auerbach and Kokoschka ) with an article, The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T, and drawings.
The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the US dollar since 1959, a currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands.
Because of traditionally close links with the U. S. Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands has used the US dollar as its currency since 1959.
The Cayman Islands ' physical isolation under early British colonial rule allowed the development of an indigenous set of administrative and legal traditions which were codified into a constitution in 1959.
* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.
* 1959 – Keith Deller, British darts player
* 1959 – Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
* 1959 – Deborah Meaden, British entrepreneur
In 1959, British engineer Francis Thomas Bacon successfully developed a 5 kW stationary fuel cell.
In 1959, when former British crown colony Singapore gained self-government, it adopted the Malay style Yang di-Pertuan Negara ( literally means " head of state " in Malay ) for its governor ( the actual head of state remained the British monarch ).
A British 1 Shilling IRC issued in 1959.
* 2011 – Mark Ryan, British musician ( Adam and the Ants ) ( b. 1959 )
* 1903 – Robin Milford, British composer ( d. 1959 )
But Nasir, who was theoretically responsible to then sultan Muhammad Farid Didi, was challenged in 1959 by a local secessionist movement in the southern atolls that benefited economically from the British presence on Gan.
* 1959 – Nick Griffin, British politician
* 1959 – Tony Slattery, British actor
* 1959 – Charles Kennedy, British politician
* 1959 – Steve Rothery, British guitarist ( Marillion )
* 1959 – Albert Ketèlbey, British composer ( b. 1875 )
* 1959 – Maxwell Caulfield, British actor
* 1959 – Brian Bovell, British actor
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