The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council itself ruled that the Irish Free State Government had that right under the Statute of Westminster 1931 ( Imp.

Imp., although in India itself the coins said " Empress ", and later " King Emperor ".

Imp., although in India itself the coins said " Empress ", and later " King Emperor.

( Imp was an extension of AA and was notable for being used to write the EMAS operating system.

Atlas Autocode's second-greatest claim to fame ( after being the progenitor of Imp and EMAS ) was that it had many of the features of the original " Compiler Compiler ".

His top auction price was $ 20. 8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie's Imp / Mod sale in November 2010, when " Violon et guitare " sold for $ 28. 6 million.

This was test flown in the Imp, but Pobjoy decided to form his own company and his collaboration with Parnall ceased.

The Hillman Husky estate version of the Hillman Imp was unusual in being a rear-engined estate.

" When she was popular, she was known as " The Biograph Girl ," " The Imp Girl ," and " The Girl of a Thousand Faces.

Rosemary Smith ( Hillman Imp ) was also disqualified from sixth place, after winning the Coupe des Dames, the ladies ' class.

Construction of the car factory began in 1961 to produce the Hillman Imp, a revolutionary small car which went into production when the factory was opened on 2 May 1963, and was not discontinued until 1976.

The engines tested was Volvo B18, Ford V4, Triumph 1300, Lancia V4 engine, Opel, Volkswagen and Hillman Imp.

Though Susan was previously infatuated with rocker Imp Y Celyn ( Soul Music ), Thief of Time ended with an unspecified " perfect moment " between Susan and Lobsang Ludd, the new anthropomorphic personification of Time.

This was part of the order placed in April by the China Aviation Supplies Imp.

This was the object of the 1891 story The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson, which told of an imp contained in a bottle that would grant the owner their every wish, the catch being that the owner's soul would be sent to hell if they didn't sell the bottle to a new owner before their death.

The Linwood car plant manufactured the Hillman Imp, a competitor to BMC's Mini, and provided up to 9, 000 jobs during peak production but was closed by Peugeot-Citroen in 1981.

By the mid-1960s, Rootes was progressively taken over by the Chrysler Corporation of the United States, following huge losses amid the commercial failure of the troubled Imp.

Chrysler UK soldiered on with a range of worthy but increasingly outmoded rear-wheel drive family cars like the Hillman Avenger ( introduced in 1970 ) and Hillman Hunter ( introduced in 1966 ), while the Imp – which by now had most of its teething problems ironed out – was largely ignored by the new management.

The Imp was finally laid to rest in 1976, and the Hunter followed it three years later ( although it continued to be produced in Iran ).

A complete departure in 1963 was the Hillman Imp using a Coventry Climax all alloy, 875 cc rear engine and built in a brand new factory in Linwood, Scotland.

Following the Hillman Imp, consideration was given to developing a larger rear-engined car, but this concept was dismissed, and the engineering settled on for the new car was more conventional and closer to the layout of the existing Audax series ( which included the previous Hillman Minx ).

The daring design of the Imp was underdeveloped, due in part to the government timetable to start production.

Rootes had to build a new computerised assembly plant on the outskirts of Glasgow, in the town of Linwood in which to assemble the Imp, since planning regulations banned it from further expanding its Ryton plant near Coventry.

The Glaswegian workforce, who were mainly recruited from the shipbuilding industry were not versed in the intricacies of motor vehicle assembly, and Imp build quality and reliability suffered accordingly ( many years later Alfa Romeo suffered similar problems when they established Alfasud in Naples as a production satellite of Alfa Nord in Milan ).

On the other hand the Imp was seen as a " Scottish car " and was popular north of the border .. Later the Imp was allowed to evolve from a revolutionary new car intended for Rootes customers who intended to buy their wives a second car, a quality small car with some above average features at that, into a kind of ultra cheap car with cheaply, even some poorly executed, design features on offer as a kind of British Skoda.

With cash-strapped Rootes struggling amid continuing engine cooling problems with the Imp which often resulted in warped cylinder heads, the cautious Arrow broke little new engineering ground.

The Hillman Imp designers learned from the problems with the Corvair, having crashed one at a relatively low speed, and designed their rear-engined car with semi-trailing arm suspension at the rear.

After absorbing Bond Cars in 1969, which had also been a maker of three-wheeler cars ( though in their case with Hillman Imp 875 cc rear engines ) Reliant used the Bond name for the iconic 1970s Bond Bug, a sporty three-wheeler designed by the Ogle designer Tom Karen.

The story follows the short-lived but glamorous musical career of " The Band with Rocks In ", a group of musicians who become famous after their leader, Imp Y Celyn a. k. a. ' Buddy ' ( Buddy Holly: the name is Welsh for " bud of the holly "), becomes possessed by the essence of an addictive new music dubbed ' Music With Rocks In '.

Zvíkovský rarášek ( The Zvíkov Imp, 1915, a comedy based on Stroupežnický ) and Karlštejn ( Karlštejn castle, 1916, a more serious work based on Vrchlický ) both met with mixed reviews, although the latter gained an important place in the repertoire of Czech opera houses through mid-century.

The rear-engine Hillman Imp never caught on with the buying public.

In 1963, Rootes introduced the Hillman Imp, a compact rear engined saloon with an innovative all-aluminium OHC engine, based on a Coventry Climax engine design ( originally used for a fire pump ).

The new Ford cab was used again in April 1966 with a new version of the Carrimore Car Transporter ( 1138 ) which had been re-designed to carry up to six Corgi cars, and which also featured in Gift Set 41 along with six cars ; Ford Cortina Estate ( 440 ), Rover 2000 ( 252 ), Hillman Imp ( 251 ), Mini Cooper De-Luxe ( 249 ), Austin Seven ( 225 ) and Mini Cooper Monte Carlo 1966 ( 321 ).

A Hillman Imp was also issued as a Monte Carlo Rally car ( 328 ), finished in blue with a white flash along the sides and two jewelled rally lamps, and was driven by an all female team of Rosemary Smith and Valerie Domleo in the 1966 event.

The final Monte Carlo Rally car was the Sunbeam Imp ( 340 ) issued in March 1967, which featured four jewelled rally lamps and was finished in blue with a white flash and front panel.

Hillman Imp, with the engine cover and the rear window lifted

A small van, the Commer Imp, was introduced in November 1965 and an estate version, using most of the same panels but with side windows behind the b-pillar, known as the Hillman Husky was produced from 1967.

The coupe body had also turned up, with less powerful engines, in the Hillman Imp Californian announced in January 1967 and the more luxurious Singer Chamois coupe.

In the end a complex schedule of trains shifting completed cars and raw castings down south and trains loaded with engine – gearbox assemblies and many other Ryton sourced goods ran north for the duration of Linwood Imp production.

The huge investment in both the Imp and the Linwood production plant proved to be one of the reasons for the undoing of Rootes Group, and its commercial failure fuelled the huge losses suffered although the main reason for Rootes Group losses were industrial unrest and the effects of the forthcoming cooperation with Chrysler Corporation of the USA.

* Hillman Imp Caledonian ( Limited Edition model with additional accessories and available in Super or De luxe models )