Examples include Jamie Baillie, former CEO of Credit Union Atlantic, Graham Day, former CEO of British Shipbuilders, Sean Durfy, former CEO of WestJet, and Charles Peter McColough, former president and CEO of Xerox.

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers ' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders.

In 1985 it acquired Yarrow shipbuilders from British Shipbuilders.

Roe and Company, one of the world's first aircraft companies ; de Havilland, manufacturer of the world's first commercial jet airliner ; British Aircraft Corporation, co-manufacturer of the Concorde supersonic transport ; Supermarine, manufacturer of the Spitfire ; Yarrow Shipbuilders, builders of the Royal Navy's first destroyers ; and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, builders of the Royal Navy's first submarines.

However continuing problems led to the company's nationalisation, though not as part of British Shipbuilders, in 1977.

* British Shipbuilders

In 1977, the Labour government of James Callaghan passed the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act which nationalised Govan and grouped it with other major British shipyards as British Shipbuilders.

British Shipbuilders ' road to privatisation was not as swift, and the group was sold piece by piece in the course of the 1980s.

British Shipbuilders ' sale of Govan to the Norwegian firm was completed in 1988 and the yard was renamed Kvaerner Govan.

Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, 1st Baronet, of Homestead ( 13 January 1842 – 24 January 1932 ) was a British shipbuilder who started a shipbuilding dynasty, Yarrow Shipbuilders.

Yarrow Shipbuilders was nationalised into British Shipbuilders by the Labour Government headed by Jim Callaghan and was subsequently privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government when the shipyard assets were purchased by GEC Marconi in 1985 ; in 1999 it became part of BAE Systems Marine.

In February 1972 Heath's government relented and restructured the yards around two new companies: Govan Shipbuilders was established ( formerly Fairfields ) along with its subsidiary Scotstoun Marine Ltd ( formerly Connells ), Yarrow Shipbuilders had already withdrawn from UCS in April 1970 and regained its status as an independent company ( until 1977, when it was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders, along with Govan Shipbuilders ).

Towards the end of the 1970s orders declined, in 1978 Robb Caledon was nationalised as part of British Shipbuilders and in 1979 Burntisland yard was closed.

The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act also led to the nationalisation of Vickers ' shipbuilding division as part of British Shipbuilders.

The Barrow yard was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977, was privatised as VSEL in 1986 and remains in operation to this day as BAE Systems Submarines.

Meanwhile the Naval Yard at High Walker on the River Tyne passed to Swan Hunter in 1968, was nationalised and became part of British Shipbuilders in 1977, was privatised still as Swan Hunter in 1986 but closed down during the 1980s.

The company was nationalised along with the rest of the British shipbuilding industry as British Shipbuilders in 1977.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

The outstanding example was in Garibaldi And The Thousand, where he made use of unpublished papers of Lord John Russell and English consular materials to reveal the motives which led the British government to permit Garibaldi to cross the Straits of Messina.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

It was not a part of any one of the three ( later four ) zones for occupation by Soviet, American, British, and French troops respectively.

After all, it goes back to the days in which sedition was not un-American, the days in which the Sons of St. Tammany conspired to overthrow the government by force and violence -- the British government, that is.

Former British Prime Minister Attlee says Eisenhower was not a `` great soldier ''.

Just because Cheddi Jagan, new boss of British Guiana, was educated in the United States is no reason to think he isn't a Red.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

In an earlier case, Kingan & Co. v. United States, an American corporation was formed for the purpose of acquiring the stock of a British corporation in exchange for its own stock and then liquidating the British corporation.

The anti-assignment statute was held not to prevent the American corporation from suing for a refund of taxes paid by the British corporation.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

After the first two were blacked out, the third light was abandoned by a terrified Italian crew, who left their light to shine for nine minutes like an unerring homing beacon until British MP's shot it out.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

De La Laude, commander of the Alabama post, had the friendship of the natives, and was able to make them look upon the British as poor competitors.

one was British and the other, French.

It was probably one of Kipling's tales of the British Army.

Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

During the intervening period, bmobile has obtained a virtual stranglehold on the cellular telecommunications market in the British Virgin Islands by a combination of low prices and aggressive advertising, as well as significant investment in infrastructure and technology.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.

A 2008 British Medical Journal article highlights that the combination of macrolides and statins ( used for lowering cholesterol ) is not advisable and can lead to debilitating myopathy.

The P51 Mustang was the subject of a 30 minute episode entitled " The Cadillac of the Skies " in reference to its exceptional performance and how it started off as a British purchase as a low level attack fighter into the powerful long range bomber escort that it would eventually become in the Air War in Europe through a combination of being fitted with the Rolls Royce Merlin and the fitting drop tanks that allowed to escort the bombers of the United States 8th Air Force all the way into occupied Europe and back.

British Aerospace was a combination of major aircraft companies British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley and others.

Gladstone believed that the right to combination used by British workers was in jeopardy when it could be denied to Irish workers.

Rather, a combination of British and American security personnel would ensure that the wanted men remained imprisoned in Jericho.

British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense.

In its modern form, it is a fairly light-hearted combination of traditional British pageantry and elements of carnival.

Through a combination of artillery and accurate rifle fire, and a better use of the ground, the Boers repelled all British attempts to cross the river.

The merger created a vertically integrated company which The Scotsman described as " combination of British Aerospace's contracting and platform-building skills with Marconi's coveted electronics systems capability ".

There may also be a road verge ( a strip of vegetation, grass or bushes or trees or a combination of these ) either between sidewalk and the roadway ( British English: carriageway ) or between the sidewalk and the boundary.

The combination of mostly British chassis and American V8 engines gave rise to the popular and spectacular Can-Am series in the 1960s and 1970s.

From the British Museum's reconstruction of the skull, Woodward proposed that Piltdown man represented an evolutionary missing link between apes and humans, since the combination of a human-like cranium with an ape-like jaw tended to support the notion then prevailing in England that human evolution began with the brain.

During the American War of Independence, the British were defeated for a second time, in this instance by a combination of French and Spanish forces, which regained the island after a long siege of St. Philip's Castle in Port Mahon on 5 February 1782.

Derived from early British forms of Country dancing, SCD is related to English country dancing, contra dancing, cèilidh dancing, Old time dancing and Irish set dancing due to the combination of some of these dance forms in early Country dance forms and later cross-over introduced by their overlapping influences via dancers and dance masters.

The Mini Cooper and Cooper " S " were sportier versions that were successful as rally cars, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlights.

The expedition was a disaster – the Austrians had already been defeated at the Battle of Wagram and were suing for peace, the French fleet had moved to Antwerp, and the British lost over 4, 000 men to a disease called " Walcheren Fever ", thought to be a combination of malaria and typhus.

* In British practice, the title of a viscount may be either a place name, or a surname, or sometimes, a combination thereof.

Upstream, Libby Dam backs up huge Lake Koocanusa ( combination name of Kootenai, Canada, USA ) into Canada's British Columbia.

Added to the checking action at Freeman's Farm two weeks prior, the dwindling British army was dealt a sound tactical defeat, the combination turning the tide of the campaign to an American advantage.

Unlike Roman times, British law explicitly forbade the combination of corporal and capital punishment ; thus, a convict was either flogged or hanged but never both.