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Before diesel engines came into widespread use, a similar system, using a petrol ( gasoline ) engine and called petrol-electric or gas-electric, was sometimes used.
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Before this time the station had been served by V / Line operated diesel trains, but with suburban Metcard tickets accepted.
Before World War II, the company had built steam -, petrol-and diesel-powered railcars for overseas customers, not to mention bus bodies for Midland Red, and afterwards developed more motive power products, including BR's Class 26, Class 33 ( both diesel ) and Class 81 ( electric ) locomotives.
Before the 300Tdi engine was introduced, military Land Rovers were offered with 2. 5-litre petrol and diesel engines, as well as the 3. 5-litre V8 petrol.
Before that, the diesel engines must be stopped or they will suck the air out of the boat in a matter of seconds.
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Before engines are to be turned, the APU is started, generally by a battery or hydraulic accumulator.
Before 1190 mining was used rarely and the siege engines of the time were largely incapable of damaging the thicker castle walls.
Before the advent of the starter motor, engines were started by various methods including wind-up springs, gun powder cylinders, and human-powered techniques such as a removable crank handle which engaged the front of the crankshaft, pulling on an airplane propeller, or pulling a cord that was wound around an open-face pulley.
Before takeoff, the engines, particularly piston engines, are routinely run up at high power to check for engine-related problems.
Before game engines, games were typically written as singular entities: a game for the Atari 2600, for example, had to be designed from the bottom up to make optimal use of the display hardware — this core display routine is today called the kernel by retro developers.
: Before the war nineteen steam war vessels had been built in the States forming the Confederacy, and the engines of all of these had been contracted for in these States.
Before mains electricity and the formation of nationwide power grids, stationary engines were widely used for small-scale electricity generation.
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Before World War I, the company used De Dion two-and four-cylinder engines in cars that ranged from 1032 cc to 9081 cc ; beginning in 1902 ( the year Edmund Rumpler became technical director ), they used their own engines as well.
Before long, Stevens began making engines, starting off with a better-built version of the Mitchell but the family soon developed their own designs, including parallel-twins and V-twins, which were sold as proprietary engines to other manufacturers, including Werner, Wolf and Clyno.
Before World War I they manufactured automobile and marine engines, and from 1910 on cars.
Before the 2011 season West Coast issued a statement on their website, " Network Rail are carrying out modernisation and extensive EU compliance work on both the Cambrian line and our engines, it was anticipated that work would be complete in time for this years ( 2012 ) season.
Before 1883 was over they had set up shop in larger premises in the Passage de Léon, Paris, tried and dropped steam engines for boats, and produced a steam car.
Before the block heater was invented, people utilized various means of warming engines before starting them, such as pouring hot water on the engine block or draining the engine's oil for storage inside overnight.
Before the outbreak of the Great War, Tański moved to Paris, where he studied engineering and specialised in airplane engines at the Ecole d ’ Electricite Industriel de Paris.
Before that, the TFD and previous fire companies used horse drawn engines and ladders.
Before being added to the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Bel Del had two dozen engines, a small passenger fleet, and hundreds of freight cars.
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Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.
Before the plague came, he liked to associate with the Spanish dancers and musicians in the city.
Before U-27 came round Nicosians bow, Baralong hauled down the American flag, hoisted the Royal Navy's White Ensign, and unmasked her guns.
Before facing Magnentius, Constantius first came to terms with Vetranio, a loyal general in Illyricum who had recently been acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the, in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo.
Before came Orphée, later turned into one of his more successful films ; after came La Machine infernale, arguably his most fully realized work of art.
Before the launch of the Qt Project, it was produced by Nokia's Qt Development Frameworks division, which came into being after Nokia's acquisition of the Norwegian company Trolltech, the original producer of Qt.
Before 1971 ( when the Scubapro company commercialized the first stabiliser jacket ) all scuba breathing sets came with a plain harness of straps with buckles like on a rucksack or spray-tank-pack.
Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.
Before universal algebra came along, many theorems ( most notably the isomorphism theorems ) were proved separately in all of these fields, but with universal algebra, they can be proven once and for all for every kind of algebraic system.
Before an answer came to their petition, the same bishops had recourse to the Holy See for an entirely different matter.
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Before Stephen Hawking came up with the concept of Hawking radiation, the question of black holes having entropy was avoided.
Before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, " three hundreds of gallant green-clad men " came from this land to Minas Tirith .</ div >
Before the opening of the Entrances, access on land was so difficult that the Azuma Kagami reports that Hōjō Masako came back to Kamakura from a visit to Sōtōzan temple in Izu bypassing by boat the impassable Inamuragasaki cape and arriving in Yuigahama.
Before the first issue of Whiz Comics came out, the character's name was changed to Captain Marvel.
In that year he published a book entitled Bevor Hitler kam (: Before Hitler Came ), in which he claimed that the Thule Society had paved the way for the Führer: " Thulers were the ones to whom Hitler first came, and Thulers were the first to unite themselves with Hitler.
Before the boom in thymidine use caused by the need for thymidine for the production of the antiretroviral drug azidothymidine ( AZT ), much of the world's thymidine production came from herring sperm.
Before 1754, when Lord Hardwicke's Act came into force, it was possible for eloping couples to be married clandestinely by an ordained clergyman ( a favourite location was the Fleet Prison, a debtors ' prison in London, in which clergymen willing to celebrate irregular marriages might be found ).
Before he came, everything on the earth and in the skies was hidden in darkness and in gloom, but where he appeared he was the light.
Before railroads came in the 1880s, Eustis was a busy port for steamers plying Lakes Harris, Eustis, Dora, and Griffin.
Before white settlers came on the land, Creek Indians lived in the Brooks area.
Before railroads came to Sidney, it was the only alternative to muddy unpaved roads.
Before people of European descent came on the scene, the region around the present town of Pond Creek was traversed by many of the nomadic Native Americans of the Great Plains.
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