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In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.
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British and oval
In music, a whole note ( American ) or semibreve ( British ) is a note represented by a hollow oval note head, like a half note ( or minim ), and no note stem ( see Figure 1 ).
These profiles include the europrofile ( or DIN standard ), the British oval profile and the Swiss profile.
In December 1990, the racetrack again changed hands when Greenwood Racing, Inc., a corporation founded in 1989 by British bookmaking veterans Bob Green and Bill Hogwood, purchased the oval from ITB.
In the British mid to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, oval barrows may indicate a transition between earlier long barrows with multiple burials and the later, more individual round barrows.
As this shape has been regarded as a war-like device appropriate to men only, British ladies customarily bear their arms upon a lozenge, or diamond-shape, while clergymen and ladies in continental Europe bear theirs on a cartouche, or oval.
Carling O ' Keefe was a major supporter of Langley Speedway, a 3 / 8th mile paved stock car oval, in Langley, British Columbia.
Bilino Polje has the British style dimensions with a square look, rather than an oval look such as the Stadium Koševo in Sarajevo, which also makes it a beautiful and somewhat unusual stadium in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
This list does not wholly accord with Haverfield's: in particular he suggests that an oval silver dish 18 inches long and 2 pieces of a silver bridle bit never reached the British Museum .< ref ><< HER 744 >> J. C. Bruce, 1875, Lapidarium Septentrionale, pp. 272-3, no.
British and racing
He was an owner of thoroughbred racing horses, including a record equalling five winners of the Epsom Derby ( Blenheim, Bahram, Mahmoud, My Love, Tulyar ) and a total of sixteen winners of British Classic Races.
He was British flat racing Champion Owner thirteen times.
* British Racing Partnership, a defunct British motor racing team
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.
* 1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver ( d. 1952 )
The race was won by " Williams " ( pseudonym of William Grover-Williams ) driving a Bugatti Type 35B painted dark green ( what would erroneously become referred to as British racing green ).
* 1968 – Justin Bell, British racing driver
* 1940 – Peter Gethin, British racing driver ( d. 2011 )
* 1978 – Marc Hynes, British racing driver
* 1975 – Ben Collins, British racing driver
* 1981 – Jay Howard, British racing driver
* 1982 – Joey Foster, British racing driver
* 1991 – Alex MacDowall, British racing driver
* 1911 – Tom Delaney, British racing driver ( d. 2006 )
* 1914 – Bob Gerard, British racing driver ( d. 1990 )
He bought and modified a series of racing cars from the Cooper Car Company, a prolific British constructor, and from 1953 concentrated on this form of racing, in which drivers compete on closed tarmac circuits.
** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994
The site is owned by Cardiff Athletic Club and has been host to many sports, apart from rugby union and cricket ; they include athletics, association football, greyhound racing, tennis, British baseball and boxing.
* 1971 – Steve Arnold, British racing driver
* 1946 – Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
* 1982 – Colin Turkington, British racing driver
* 1961 – Tim Harvey, British racing driver
British and term
In a related use, from 1975, British naturalist Sir Peter Scott coined the scientific term " Nessiteras rhombopteryx " ( Greek for " The monster ( or wonder ) of Ness with the diamond shaped fin ") for the apocryphal Loch Ness Monster.
In other instances, it either shares a term with American English, as with truck ( UK: lorry ) or eggplant ( UK: aubergine ), or sometimes with British English, as with mobile phone ( US: cell phone ) or bonnet ( US: hood ).
The term the Government always takes a plural verb in British civil service convention, perhaps to emphasize the principle of cabinet collective responsibility.
* ABCD line, a Japanese term for embargoes placed against Japan by the Americans, British, Chinese and Dutch, as well as other countries.
After the southern part of Ireland became independent in 1922, the team continued to be termed the British Isles, referring to the British Isles geographic term, rather than national citizenship.
To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.
* British Islands, a legal term describing the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, collectively
On the Great British canal system, the term ' barge ' is used to describe a boat wider than a narrowboat, and the people who move barges are often known as lightermen.
British English ( or BrEn, BrE, BE, en-UK or en-GB )< ref > is the language code for British English, as defined by ISO standards ( see ISO 639-1 and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 ) and Internet standards ( see IETF language tag ).</ ref > is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere.
The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".
Nevertheless, there is a meaningful degree of uniformity in written English within the United Kingdom, and this could be described by the term British English.
* Bitter ( beer ), a British term for pale ale
Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.
* BBS, collective term for the former South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, administered by the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa
" Black and Tan " or " Tan " remains a pejorative term for the British in Ireland, and they are still despised by many in Ireland.
The term was modelled on the British term: Champagne socialist.
In some historical cases the term machine carbine was the official title for sub-machine guns, such as the British Sten and Australian Owen guns.
The first archaeological excavations of the 1880s were followed by systematic work by the British School at Athens and by Christos Tsountas, who investigated burial sites on several islands in 1898-1899 and coined the term " Cycladic civilization ".
It should be noted that while the term " armoured engineer vehicle " is used specifically to describe these multi-purpose tank based engineering vehicles, that term is also used more generically in British and Commonwealth militaries to describe all heavy tank based engineering vehicles used in the support of mechanized forces.
An undated painting of the British Water Witch built in 1831 is labeled OPIUM CLIPPER " WATER WITCH " so the term had at least passed into common usage during the time that this ship sailed.
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