For the 1970 season Dodge raced the 1969 model Daytona, but Plymouth managed to build over 1, 920 Plymouth Superbirds, which were almost identical to the Daytona.

Indeed, references to bridges in Plymouth circle almost exclusively around the bridge itself.

Plymouth almost received their own rendition of the LH platform, which was to be called the Accolade, but Chrysler decided to nix this idea not long before LH production started.

Captive import subcompact models included the Dodge Colt and the almost identical Plymouth Champ.

Although Titokowaru's forces were numerically small and initially outnumbered in battle 12 to one by government troops, the ferocity of their attacks provoked fear among settlers and prompted the resignation and desertion of many militia volunteers, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of most government military forces from South Taranaki and giving Titokowaru control of almost all territory between New Plymouth and Wanganui.

Although Titokowaru's forces were numerically small and initially outnumbered in battle 12 to one by government troops, the ferocity of their attacks provoked fear among settlers and prompted the resignation and desertion of many militia volunteers, ultimately leading to the withdrawal of most government military forces from South Taranaki and giving Titokowaru control of almost all territory between New Plymouth and Wanganui.

An Outside-left by trade, he played in Scotland for Alloa Athletic, and in England for Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, Glossop, Plymouth Argyle and Southend United in a career spanning almost twenty-years.

According to English sources, Massasoit prevented the failure of Plymouth Colony and the almost certain starvation that the Pilgrims faced during the earliest years of the colony's establishment.

Richard Huggett, standing as a " Literal Democrat ", gained over 10, 000 votes in the Devon and East Plymouth constituency and almost certainly prevented the Liberal Democrats from gaining a third seat from the Conservative Party.

During that period, it powered almost all Chrysler New Yorker and Imperial models, and was also available on the lesser Chryslers, Dodge Polara, Dodge Monaco, and Plymouth Fury as an alternative to the B-block 383 and / or the 318.

This legend was disproved in the dry summer of 1844 when the pool was almost completely pumped out by the Plymouth Dock Water Company to supplement the water supply of Devonport Leat which runs along the hillside not far above the pool.

A methane gas explosion in the mine on May 9, 1992, which killed 26 miners, placed Plymouth in the international media spotlight for almost a week during the failed rescue efforts, with the local community centre, opposite the mine site, becoming a symbol of the area.

The explosion blanketed Plymouth, away, in a thick layer of ash, and darkened the sky almost completely.

General Motors ' first attempt at producing a minivan to compete with the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, the Chevrolet Astro and its twin, the GMC Safari, failed to make a noticeable dent in Chrysler's almost total dominance of the minivan market in the late eighties, so this second attempt was made.

The RLC was founded as the 10-team Southern Conference League in 1997, with teams from the southern midlands and the south east, but has subsequently, rebranded and expanded both geographically and numerically to include around 90 teams stretched across almost the whole of Great Britain from Aberdeen in northern Scotland down to Plymouth on the south coast of England.

He was struck by another heavy storm and was unable to carry out even that task, and while Porto Santo in Madeira was plundered, his flagship, the Revenge, sprang a leak and almost foundered as it led the remainder of the fleet home to Plymouth.

The GTO was surpassed in sales both by the Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 and the Plymouth Road Runner, but 72, 287 were sold during the 1969 model year, with 6, 833 of them being The Judge.

The next year brought significant signs of the company ’ s development as sales surpassed the $ 1 billion milestone and a new plant in Plymouth, England was constructed to serve the European markets.

* John Ford ( bishop ) ( born 1952 ), English curate, chaplain and diocesan missioner who rose through Church of England hierarchy to become Bishop of Plymouth in 2006

There are quite a few churches dedicated to St. Boniface in the United Kingdom: Bunbury, Cheshire ; Chandler's Ford and Southampton Hampshire ; Adler Street, London ; Papa Westray, Orkney ; St Budeaux, Plymouth ( now demolished ); Bonchurch, Isle of Wight ; Cullompton, Devon.

Chevrolet continued into the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s competing with Ford, and after the Chrysler Corporation formed Plymouth in 1928, Plymouth, Ford, and Chevrolet were known as the " Low-priced three ".

This situation improved when Dodge introduced a new line of Dodges called the Dart to do battle against Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth.

By this time, Olds had displaced Pontiac and Plymouth as the # 3 best-selling brand in the U. S. behind Chevrolet and Ford.

1970 was of special significance as the only year that all the " pony " car manufacturers fielded " factory " teams with world-class drivers ... Ford beat Chevrolet, Pontiac, Plymouth, Dodge and AMC.

At one time there were three car dealerships, Dufour Chevrolet, White Castle Motor company ( Ford ) and Dixie Sales and Service ( Chrysler / Plymouth ), three drug stores, Heberts, Viallons, and Bajons, Weils and Shaheens clothing stores, and two lumber yards.

He also jointly with David Rider purchased an 80 acre tract of Land in Livonia, on Plymouth Road, the land of which is now occupied by the Ford Motor Company Livonia Transmission Plant.

George Starkweather's grandson, Karl Hillmer Starkweather ( who changed his name from Karl Starkweather Hillmer ), was a respected and lifelong Plymouth resident and local historian, and Ford Motor Company employee at the Wilcox Lake Tap Plant in which he was shop steward.

At one time there was Rupp Chevrolet, Ted Roland Ford, Reese Dodge, Pelligreno Plymouth, Crossdale Cadillac, International Trucks, and International Scout.

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U. S. automakers had first countered imports such as the Volkswagen Beetle with compact cars including the Ford Falcon, Chevrolet Corvair and Plymouth Valiant, although these cars featured six-cylinder engines and comprised a larger vehicle class.

Ford Park Cemetery is a cemetery in central Plymouth, England, established by the Plymouth, Stonehouse & Devonport Cemetery Company in 1846 and opened in 1848.

Its official name at the time of inception was The Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse ( Ford Park ) Cemetery, although it is now seldom referred to by that title.

Not far from GM and Ford was the Chrysler exhibit group, where an audience in a theater with air conditioning, then a new technology, could watch a Plymouth being assembled right before their very eyes.

Also from Ford, Iacocca brought to Chrysler the " Mini-Max " project, which, in 1983, bore fruit in the highly successful Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager.

Now facing serious competition both within GM and from Ford, Dodge, and Plymouth — particularly the low-cost Plymouth Road Runner — the GTO won Motor Trends Car of the Year award, and sales remained strong at 87, 684 ( which would ultimately prove to be the second-best sales year for the GTO ).

Wanting to avoid internal competition with the " Euro-styled " Pontiac Grand Am, and looking for an entry into the compact muscle market populated by the Plymouth Duster 360, Ford Maverick Grabber and AMC Hornet X, Pontiac moved the 1974 GTO option to the compact Pontiac Ventura, which shared its basic body shell and sheetmetal with the Chevrolet Nova.

As buyers began exchanging large cars for the smaller imported ones, Detroit responded with the Ford Pinto, the Ford Maverick, the Chevrolet Vega, the Chevrolet Nova, the Plymouth Valliant, and the Plymouth Volaré.

Formed in Plymouth in late June 1940 following the Dunkirk evacuation, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel John Durnford-Slater, No. 3 Commando was the first British unit to use the title of " Commando ".

Keith Rowe performing solo at the AMPLIFY 2008 festival, Kid Ailack Art Hall, TokyoKeith Rowe ( born 16 March 1940 in Plymouth, England ) is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter.

In the first stage, the French ships in the British ports of Plymouth and Portsmouth were simply boarded on the night of 3 July 1940.

Mountbatten Pink, also called Plymouth Pink, is a naval camouflage colour, a shade of grayish mauve, invented by Louis Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy in autumn 1940 during World War II.

After publication in 1940, the book sold 80, 000 copies in the United Kingdom and the United States, collecting US $ 40, 000 in royalties for Kennedy ; those from the English sales were donated to Plymouth, England, recently bombed by the Luftwaffe, while Kennedy bought a green Buick convertible with the American income.

Notable heritage projects in New Zealand involving Downer & Co include the Homer Tunnel accessing Milford Sound ( 1935 – 1940 ), Rimutaka Tunnel ( 1951 – 1955 ), Cook Strait Ferry Terminal for passenger and freight operations ( 1960 ), Lower Nihotupu Dam ( 1948 ), Lower Wairarapa Valley flood prevention scheme ( 1964 – 1984 ) and New Plymouth Power Station ( 1972 ).

The first use of the Kingsway name was in Canada for the 1940 model year ( model D15 ), basically Dodge's rebadged version of the Plymouth Roadking.

Thomas Colapietro ( born 1940 ) is a former Democratic Connecticut State Senator who represented Bristol, Plainville, Plymouth, and part of Harwinton.