The new owners pushed the company into modernising its line, producing the V8 Vantage in 1977, the convertible Volante in 1978, and the one-off William Towns-styled Bulldog in 1980.

In 1977, the Bank set up a wholly owned subsidiary called Bank of England Nominees Limited ( BOEN ), a private limited company, with two of its hundred £ 1 shares issued.

From PET's 1977 debut, Commodore would be a computer company.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

On June 28, 1977, in the Philadelphia Federal District Court, a lawsuit was filed by the Norlin Corporation, the parent company of Gibson Guitars against Elger / Hoshino U. S. A .' s use of the Gibson headstock design and logo.

Dench won the 1977 SWET Best Actress award for her performance and in 2004, members of the RSC voted her performance the greatest by an actress in the history of the company.

Poor management and marketing led to Moog's departure from his own company in 1977.

Nelson co-founded Itty bitty machine company, or " ibm ", which was a small computer retail store operating from 1977 to 1980 in Evanston, Illinois.

Microware Systems Corporation existed as a separate entity from 1977 until September 2001, when it was bought by RadiSys Corp., and became a division of that company.

By 1977, the company was selling a heat-resistant duct tape for heating ducts.

In 1977, Zapf and his friends Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin founded a company called " Design Processing International, Inc ." in New York and developed typographical computer software.

The company was formed in the United Kingdom as a statutory corporation on 29 April 1977 as a result of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act.

The D ' Oyly Carte company performed Pinafore before Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 16 June 1977, during the queen's Silver Jubilee year, the first royal command performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera since 1891.

* 1977: Company renamed Lockheed Corporation, to reflect non-aviation activities of the company.

Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain, with the first Games Workshop store opening in Hammersmith in 1977.

In 1977, Toshiba merged with the Brazilian company Semp ( Sociedade Eletromercantil Paulista ), forming Semp Toshiba.

In 1977, he was appointed company President.

It was first shown, privately, at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show in 1977, and soon the company was receiving 50 calls a day from dealers wanting to sell the computer.

Also in 1977, TSR Hobbies published the original Monster Manual, the first hardbound book ever published by a game company.

The weapons were Palestine Liberation Organisation arms captured by the Israelis, sold to Armscor, the South African state-owned company which, in defiance of the 1977 United Nations arms embargo, set about making South Africa self-sufficient in military hardware.

The final films, from around 1977 until his death, were more varied, with international actors sometimes used and the stock company disbanded ( although the casts of some films were still filled with Fassbinder regulars ).

In 1977, the company merged with the international Tenneco company.

Her father, Edward Zimmermann ( 1879 – 1977 ), was an accountant with James H. Dunham & Company, a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods company, and her mother, Agnes ( née Gardner ; 1883 – 1974 ), was a school teacher.

McCall purchased a sawmill from the Warren Dredging company and later sold it to the Hoff & Brown Lumber Company, which would become a major employer until its closure in 1977.

It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award until 1980.

Although the National League began its LCS MVP award in 1977, the American League did not begin its LCS MVP award till 1980.

Although Nelson's biographer Ernle Bradford assumed in 1977 that the remains of Orient " are almost certainly unrecoverable ", the first archaeological investigation into the battle began in 1983, when a French survey team under Jacques Dumas discovered the wreck of the French flagship.

Plug was a comic based on the eponymous character from The Bash Street Kids that began with issue dated 24 September 1977, and is notable for being the first comic to make use of rotogravure printing.

In 1977 it began to publish and maintain a much-improved, revised version of Bliss ’ s system, the Bliss Bibliographic Classification ( Second Edition ) or BC2.

Marker then began work on one of his most ambitious films, A Grin Without a Cat, released in 1977.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1997 ), an Amtrak train that began running from Richmond, Virginia to New York train in 1977 and eventually became part of the Northeast Regional.

Styx began its series of concept albums in 1977 with The Grand Illusion-focused on self-constructed and societal walls ( similar to The Wall by Pink Floyd )-then followed it with Pieces of Eight in 1978.

In 1977, Gygax began work on a more comprehensive version of the game, called Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

In 1977, a former Miss America contestant and orange juice spokesperson, Anita Bryant, began a campaign " Save Our Children ", in Dade County, Florida ( greater Miami ), which proved to be a major set-back in the Gay Liberation movement.

Production began in 1977, following completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

At this point Adams began to experiment with electronic music, and his experiences are reflected in the writing of Phrygian Gates ( 1977 – 78 ), in which the constant shifting between modules in Lydian mode and Phrygian mode refers to activating electronic gates rather than architectural ones.

Around 1977, the subculture began to diversify with the proliferation of factions such as 2 Tone, Oi !, pop punk, New Wave, and No Wave.

Moves towards a strict liability regime in Europe began with the Council of Europe Convention on Products Liability in regard to Personal Injury and Death ( the Strasbourg Convention ) in 1977.

It gained notoriety as a midnight movie in 1977 when audiences began participating with the film in theatres.

The main development overseen by the Jenkins Commission was the development of the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union from 1977, which began in 1979 as the European Monetary System, a forerunner of the Single Currency or Euro.

He began writing in 1977.

Sri Lanka began to shift away from a socialist orientation in 1977.

On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities.

He began publishing his Baseball Abstracts in 1977 to study some questions about baseball he found interesting, and their eclectic mix of essays based on new kinds of statistics soon became popular with a generation of thinking baseball fans.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

By 1977 the band were performing their own three-chord pop punk material, which was performed alongside cover versions at concerts, primarily at The Casbah, where the band began to perform in February.

After moving to London, Vangelis signed with RCA Records, set up his own studio, Nemo Studios, and began recording a string of electronic albums, such as Heaven and Hell ( 1975 ), Albedo 0. 39 ( 1976 ), Spiral ( 1977 ), Beaubourg ( 1978 ), and China ( 1979 ).

Originally scheduled for May / June 1977 but first published one month later on a bimonthly schedule with an initial ( and speculative ) print run of 4, 000, White Dwarf continued the fantasy and science fiction role-playing and board-gaming theme developed in Owl and Weasel but, owing to the increase in available space, began to produce reviews, articles and scenarios to a greater depth than had previously been possible.