Dunkin ' Donuts, which was founded in 1948 under the name Open Kettle ( Quincy, Massachusetts ), is the oldest surviving company to use the donut variation ; other chains, such as the defunct Mayflower Doughnut Corporation ( 1931 ), did not use that spelling.

Major corporations in the city include the Nooter Corporation — makers of industrial equipment, UniGroup — owners of United and Mayflower van and truck lines, Wolff Shoe, and the Fabick Company — a large Caterpillar construction equipment dealer.

Burnac Corporation of Toronto, which manages the Mayflower Mall, also has plans to open the Sydney Power Centre across the street at the corner of the SPAR and Highway 125.

It was sold to Trinity Holdings ( formed from a management buyout from Hestair Group ) in 1989 and then to Mayflower Corporation in October 1998.

Thomas Dennis LLC was created in 1999 as a joint venture between Thomas Built Buses, Inc. ( Freightliner ) of the United States and Dennis Bus ( Mayflower Corporation ) of the United Kingdom.

Courtesy of Celestial Harmonies / Mayflower Music Corporation.

In October 1998, it was acquired by Mayflower Corporation.

Bolshevism on Trial is a 1919 American motion picture drama made by the Mayflower Photoplay Company and distributed through Lewis J. Selznick's Select Pictures Corporation.

The final 11 car bodies manufactured by Mayflower Vehicle Systems were disassembled, and the frames and body panels were sold as service parts.

Shortly afterwards, on 31 March 1989, the Mayflower Trust surrendered their lease and sold off the boats and sports equipment.

As a result, Mayflower sold its 49 % stake and the name of the company was changed to DaimlerChrysler Commercial Buses North Carolina in 2003.

After the failure of the Mayflower Group in 2004, TransBus was sold to a private group of investors and became Alexander Dennis.

However, when White did return to his NY studio, he went to work on his Mayflower painting, which he sold off the easel for $ 1, 000, and a new and successful stage of his career was launched.

The school was named after Dennis fisherman Nathaniel H. Wixon, a descendant of more than 15 of the original Mayflower pilgrims.

Concord Records signed on Barry Manilow in 2000 with Norman Lear at the helm, which Barry to work on the long-anticipated concept album, " Here at the Mayflower " ( designed by Los Angeles graphic designer Dennis Purcell of Clutch Design ).

Alexander Dennis was formed as TransBus on 1 January 2001, after the merger of Mayflower Corporation-owned Dennis and Alexander, and Henlys-owned Plaxton, all based in the United Kingdom.

In August 2000 a joint venture was formed with Mayflower, owners of the Dennis and Alexander brands.

In 2001 Henlys became part of a joint venture with the Mayflower group, owner of bodybuilder Alexander and chassis manufacturer Dennis.

In August 2000, with continuing domestic sales difficulties, a joint venture was formed with Mayflower, now owners of the Dennis and Alexander brands.

In July 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Rotherhithe for Southampton on the south coast of England, to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage to New England.

The underground churches in England and exiles from Holland provided about 35 out of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, which sailed from London in July 1620.

According to the ship's log, Mayflower II was towed up the East River into New York City on Monday, July 1, 1957 Afterwards, Villiers and crew received a ticker-tape parade in New York City.

Marissa Nadler released her first album, Ballads of Living and Dying, on Eclipse Records in 2004 ; her follow-up, The Saga of Mayflower May, was released in July 2005.

* The Saga of Mayflower May ( July 2005 )

These fears were not totally without merit, as a portion of the brick façade on the east side of the hotel had broken loose in July 2005, falling to the roof of the Mayflower Ballroom.

The location was also used as the headquarters of Mayflower Industries in the 1991 movie Hudson Hawk and served as a backdrop for scenes from the 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.

At the time that Belcourt was purchased in 1956, the Tinney family comprised Harold Tinney, his wife Ruth Tinney, their son Donald Tinney, and Ruth's aunt Nellie Fuller ( a descendant of Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller ).

After agreeing to the deal, Mayflower Transit trucks were dispatched to the team's Maryland training complex on March 29, 1984 in the early morning, where workers loaded all of the team's belongings and the trucks left for Indianapolis with the Colts completely gone from Baltimore by midday.

The Mayflower Compact, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris which was widely reproduced through much of the 20th century

He was a ship-carpenter by trade and a cooper for Mayflower, which was usually docked at Southampton.

Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor by William Halsall ( 1882 )

Another theory is that John Alden came from Harwich, England, where there are records of an Alden family who were related by marriage to Christopher Jones, the Mayflower ’ s captain.

The first edition was published in 1939, set and printed in Great Britain by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., at the Mayflower Press, Plymouth, in Walbaum type, twelve point, leaded, on a toned opaque-wove paper made by John Dickinson, and bound by James Burn.

** Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

His cattle at the Mayflower Farm have produced world records, while he himself has publicly served in positions appointed by the United States Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland and Ohio Governor Richard Celeste.

The Mayflower Compact, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris which was widely reproduced through much of the 20th century

The holders of the puppet strings turn out to be a " psychotic American corporation ," Mayflower Industries, run by husband and wife Darwin ( Richard E. Grant ) and Minerva Mayflower ( Sandra Bernhard ) and a blade-slinging butler, Alfred ( Donald Burton ).

Minerva Mayflower, played by Sandra Bernhard, is sitting on a desk singing the song while it is being played on her headphones.

In 2006, Mayflower was certified as an Arkansas Community of Excellence by the Arkansas Department of Economic Development.

Originally settled by the Nauset tribe, Eastham was the site where in 1621 a hunting expedition comprised from the crew of the sailing vessel Mayflower, which had stopped in Provincetown harbor on Cape Cod Bay after a rough crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, which led to the first encounter of the Pilgrims and the local Nauset Indians at First Encounter Beach.

Franklin's campaign to raise funds for the move were complicated by the Great Depression, but ended up including a gift from the City of Waterville-in an effort to keep Colby from relocating to Augusta, Waterville deeded on Mayflower Hill, near the outskirts of the city, to the college.

It was one of the Bibles taken to America on the Mayflower, it was used by many English Dissenters, and it was still respected by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers at the time of the English Civil War.

The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 ( OS ), by 41 of the ship's 101 passengers, while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.

According to the arrangements made by Carver and Cushman, the Speedwell was to meet up with the Mayflower off the coast of England and both would sail to Hudson's River, now the site of New York City.

The Mayflower Compact, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris which was widely reproduced through much of the 20th century

The leaders of the colony felt this situation might lead to political anarchy and, motivated by mutinous outbursts from some of the colonists, they drafted the Mayflower Compact off the coast of Cape Cod.