Architects in the UK who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined.

The Blackadder pilot was shot but never aired on terrestrial TV in the UK ( although some scenes were shown in the 25th anniversary special Blackadder Rides Again ).

some foreign ships register in the Cayman Islands as a flag of convenience ; includes ships from 11 countries among which are: Greece 15, US 5, UK 5, Cyprus 2, Denmark 2, Norway 3 ( 2002 est.

" The UK Council for Psychotherapy issued a press release in 2012 saying that the IAPT's policies were undermining traditional psychotherapy and criticized proposals that would limit some approved therapies to CBT, claiming that they restricted patients to " a watered down version of cognitive behavioural therapy ( CBT ), often delivered by very lightly trained staff ".

The House of Lords of the UK parliament had, for example through the 1990s, over 700 members with a hereditary right to being a lawgiver ; this practice was reformed in 2004, still some 92 parliamentary seats are set aside for hereditary peers as of 2012.

Commodore UK stayed in business by selling old inventory and making computer speakers and some other types of computer peripherals.

Bowie's second album, Space Oddity, followed in November ; originally issued in the UK as David Bowie, it caused some confusion with its predecessor of the same name, and the early US release was instead titled Man of Words / Man of Music.

While Germany created their own adaptations of episodes, the United Kingdom ( UK ) reprinted the Dark Horse titles, then translated some of the German adaptations of Adventure 02 episodes.

However, some UK universities such as Oxford and Sussex ( and, until recently, York ) retain the D. Phil.

BT and some of the UK manufacturers championed DPNSS into ECMA and CCITT ( ITU ) but it was eventually deprecated by the standards bodies in favour of Q931 and QSig.

Levels of accreditation vary: some of the institutions receive little outside oversight, and some may be fraudulent diploma mills, although in many jurisdictions, an institution may not use terms such as " university " without accreditation and authorisation, often overseen by the national government – for example, the Quality Assurance Agency in the UK.

The UK brought together several countries ( including some bordering the EEC ) and decided to form the European Free Trade Association in about 1959, soon after the establishment of the 6-nation EEC ( France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands ).

Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and out-takes, including 2 new singles " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976.

The SM is usually a UK qualified lawyer, with at least 10 years experience as an advocate and, usually, with some judicial experience.

There were some attempts to declare complete independence in this period, but the UK had given an undertaking not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Faroe Islands nor to act without the permission of a liberated Denmark.

It bears some similarity to the UK series Drop the Dead Donkey.

There is some self-regulation through the British Franchise Association ( BFA ) and the UK Franchise Organisation.

However, Germany, along with some other larger European countries ( with the exception of the UK and the Netherlands ), have been criticised by the British and Canadians for not sharing the burden of the more intensive combat operations in southern Afghanistan.

The first six bars also form all or part of the Vice Regal Salute in some Commonwealth realms outside the UK ( e. g., in Canada, governors general and lieutenant governors at official events are saluted with the first six bars of " God Save the Queen " followed by the first four and last four bars of " O Canada "), as well as the salute given to governors of British overseas territories.

The imperial ( UK ) gallon, defined as litres, is used in some Commonwealth countries and was originally based on the volume of 10 pounds of water at.

A gelatin shot ( usually called a Jell-O shot in North America and vodka jelly or jelly shot in the UK and Australia ) is a shooter in which liquor, usually vodka, rum, tequila, or neutral grain spirit replaces some of the water or fruit juice that is used to congeal the gel.

Under Franco, Spain actively sought the return of Gibraltar by the UK, and gained some support for its cause at the United Nations.

New houses in the UK may be covered by a NHBC guarantee but some people feel that it would be more useful to put new houses on the same legal footing as other products.

Some later ram designs in the UK called compound rams were designed to pump treated water using an untreated drive water source, which overcomes some of the problems of having drinking water sourced from an open stream.

A semi-trailer truck, also known as a semi, tractor-trailer, truck and trailer, transfer truck, 18-wheeler, mack truck, big rig ( US ), transport ( Canada ), artic ( UK and Ireland ), or lorry ( UK ), is an articulated vehicle consisting of a towing engine ( tractor in the United States, prime mover in Australia or truck in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand ), and a semi-trailer ( plus possible additional trailers ) that carries the freight.

In the UK, two wheels bolted to the same hub are classed as a single wheel, therefore a standard six-axle articulated truck is considered to have twelve wheels, even though it has twenty tyres.

Furthermore Denby Transport asserted that two Eco-Links would replace three standard articulated lorries while if limited to the current UK weight limit of 44 tonnes, it was claimed the Eco-Link would reduce carbon emissions by 16 per cent, and could still halve the number of trips needed for the same amount of cargo carried in conventional lorries.

It includes the biggest indoor ice climbing wall in the world, the UK's highest indoor articulated rock climbing wall and a competition bouldering wall voted the best in the UK.

* Semi-trailer truck ( UK: articulated lorry )

A span bolster, in rail terminology, is a beam or frame used to link two trucks ( US ) or bogies ( UK ) so that they can be articulated together and be joined to the locomotive or railroad car at one rotating mounting point.

In the UK the maximum permitted gross weight of a semi-trailer truck is 44, 000 kg ( 97, 000 lb ) which means the UK has the highest permissible weight for a single trailer semi-trailer truck in the world ( 44 tonne semi-trailer trucks are permitted on Continental Europe but only if an ISO container is being transported, otherwise the maximum permissible weight is 40 tonnes ).

In practice, like double decker buses and coaches in the UK, there is no legal height limit for semi-trailer trucks ; however, bridges over 16. 5 ft ( 5. 03 m ) do not have the height marked on them.

The gaff's fork ( jaws ) is held on by a rope threaded through beads called trucks ( US ) or parrel beads ( UK ).

Freight cars ( UK: " wagons " or " trucks ") exist in a wide variety of types, adapted to the ideal carriage of a whole host of different things.

Over time their general-purpose commercial use reduced to specialist roles, as platform trucks, forklift trucks, ambulances, tow tractors and urban delivery vehicles, such as the iconic British milk float ; for most of the 20th century, the UK was the world's largest user of electric road vehicles.

The area is predominantly an agricultural area, however, there are also several factories including Moxy Engineering ( which produces trucks ), the Hustadmarmor marble factory ( which produces calcium products for European paper producers ), and the Tine cheese factory ( which is the largest producer of Jarlsberg cheese with exports to the UK, USA, Canada, Germany, and Australia ).

For that reason 1 / 76 scale commercial vehicles have less appeal outside the UK, but 1 / 87 scale trucks are very popular, not only with model railroaders but with truck collectors as well.

The frame may in turn be supported by axles directly attached to it, or it may be mounted on bogies ( UK ) / trucks ( US ), or a combination of the two.

A flatcar ( US ) ( also flat car ( US ) or flat wagon ( non-US )) is a piece of railroad ( US ) or railway ( non-US ) rolling stock that consists of an open, flat deck on four or six wheels or a pair of trucks ( US ) or bogies ( UK ).

Most of the Fargo trucks and bus chassis sold in Argentina, Finland, Australia, India, and other countries in Europe and Asia were made in Chrysler's Kew ( UK ) plant.

In the UK during the 1980s the Travellers ' mobile homes-generally old vans, trucks and buses ( including double-deckers )-moved in convoys.

Vehicles that employ holding tanks include recreational vehicles ( RVs ), trucks ( U. S. usage ) or lorries ( UK usage ), railroad trains, boats, aircraft, and even spacecraft.

The DeSoto brand was badge engineered sporadically on Dodge trucks made in Australia, Argentina, Spain, Turkey, and the UK.