The Ickenham and District Society of Model Engineers was formed in September 1948 and originally met in the old ARP huts, before moving to Ickenham Hall.

In 1948, Les Paul was given one of the first Ampex Model 200A reel-to-reel audio tape recording decks by Crosby and went on to use Ampex's eight track " Sel-Sync " machines for Multitrack recording.

However, in the past, there were numerous examples of larger inline-fours without balance shafts, such as the Citroën DS 23 2, 347 cc engine that was a derivative of the Traction Avant engine, the 1948 Austin 2, 660 cc engine used in the Austin-Healey 100 and Austin Atlantic, the 3. 3 L flathead engine used in the Ford Model A ( 1927 ), and the 2. 5 L GM Iron Duke engine used in a number of American cars and trucks.

An electric welder and gas torch modified an old 1927 Ford Model “ T ” Roadster to accept a 1948 Mercury Block, ’ 39 Ford floor shift transmission, and a ’ 48 Ford rear.

In 1948, ABC used an Ampex Model 200 audio recorder using 3M Scotch 111 gamma ferric oxide coated acetate tape for the first-ever U. S. broadcast delayed radio broadcast of The Bing Crosby Show.

* In 1948, the first tape-delayed U. S. radio program was broadcast by using an Ampex Model 200 tape recorder.

Ampex and Mullin subsequently developed commercial stereo and multitrack audio recorders, based on the system invented by Ross Snyder of Ampex Corp. Les Paul had been given one of the first Ampex Model 200 tape decks by Crosby in 1948 and went on to use Ampex eight track " Sel Sync " machines for multitracking.

A standard-tread 1948 Massey Harris Model 20 | Massey-Harris 20

In 1948, a groundbreaking development in the form of rear suspension springing was developed, initially for competition model " trials " models ( modern enduro type machines ), but this was soon offered on the roadgoing Model Bullet 350cc, a single cylinder ohv.

Charlie Ryan actually owned a hot rod which consisted of a 1948 Lincoln 12-cylinder chassis shortened two feet and clad in a Model A Ford body, a hot rod that likely could trounce the Fords and Mercurys of the day.

In 1948 ( perhaps a year or two earlier ) he introduced the world's first effect unit for electric guitar, the Model 800 Trem Trol.

* 1948 John Deere Model M tractor

The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1943 by Robert Paxton McCulloch as a manufacturer of small two-stroke gasoline engines and introduced its first chainsaw in 1948, the Model 5-49.

Barbara Stanwyck talked on an ivory Model 202 phone in the 1948 motion picture Sorry, Wrong Number.

Scheduled services between Rand Airport, Johannesburg and Durban began on 1 July 1948, using a Cessna Model 195.

* Kirby Model 508 ( 1948 )

* Model SX-42 ( 1948 ), a massive receiver featuring the new FM band.

Their first consumer television set, the 1948 table Model 48-1000, had a screen and sold for US $ 395.

In 1948, Prince Khalid began to attend Model school in Taif to receive secondary education.

Stephanie Lynn " Stevie " Nicks ( born May 26, 1948 ) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums.

As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed, in terms of actual price, by four other paintings: the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $ 135 million, the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $ 138 million in November 2006, and No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for $ 140 million in November 2006 and one painting from The Card Players series by Paul Cezanne sold for a record of more than $ 250million.

Created by writer Bill Finger and artist Dick Sprang, the character first appeared in Detective Comics # 140 ( 1948 ).

Detective Comics # 140 ( October 1948 ), the first appearance of the Riddler.

On November 3, 2006, the New York Times reported that Geffen had sold Pollock's 1948 painting No. 5, 1948 from his collection for $ 140 million (£ 73. 35 million ) to Mexican financier David Martinez.

The PBS was established in 1948 by supplying approximately 140 lifesaving and disease-preventing drugs.

At the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, there were approximately 140, 000 – 150, 000 Jews living in Iran, the historical center of Persian Jewry.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

The Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in 1948 was followed immediately by the conclusion of the Brussels Treaty, a 50-year alliance among Britain, France and the Benelux countries.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

In November 1948 the station was re-established under its present name, Manseibashi Police Station.

One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:

India's " Father of the Nation ," Mohandas K. Gandhi, was shot to death in 1948 by Nathuram Godse.

In 1948, Capp reached a creative peak with the introduction of the Shmoos, lovable and innocent fantasy creatures who reproduced at amazing speed and brought so many benefits that, ironically, the world economy was endangered.

The weapon was initially dubbed KAS-1, then AAM-2, and, from 1948 on, AAM-N-2.

The army was involved in a number of border skirmishes from 1948 to 1952, repulsing several Greek attacks, and took part in the suppression of the Prague spring events.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.

Berinthia " Berry " Berenson Perkins ( April 14, 1948 – September 11, 2001 ) was an American photographer, actress, and model.

The 11th Batallion of Chasseurs alpins was garrisonned at Barcelonnette between 1948 and 1990.

Bethlehem was administered by the British Mandate from 1920 to 1948.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

The original 1948 Master Plan included a Third Harbor Tunnel plan that was hugely controversial in its own right because it would have disrupted the Maverick Square area of East Boston.

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

In 1948, Pasternak advised Ivinskaya to resign her job at Novy Mir, which was becoming extremely difficult due to their relationship.