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Imp and was
( 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.
The Imp itself was underdeveloped, and the aforementioned build quality and unreliability problems, coupled with buyer apathy towards the quirky design was reflected in poor sales.
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.
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 ).

Imp and 1976
The Hillman Imp is a compact, rear-engined saloon car that was manufactured under the Hillman marque by the Rootes Group ( later Chrysler Europe ) from 1963 to 1976.
Chrysler stewardship was blamed by some for the demise of the Imp in March 1976, after fewer than 500, 000 had been built and the entire empire collapsed two years later, when it became part of Peugeot.
Between 1967 and 1969, the Rapier was built at Ryton-on-Dunsmore, but from 1969 until its demise in 1976, it was built at the Imp factory at Linwood in Scotland.

Imp and Hunter
Hunter production was switched in 1969 to Rootes ' troubled Imp plant in Linwood, from its original home of Ryton.

Imp and followed
They frequently appear in children's stories such as ' Silvia ' in which she is followed by a black Imp.
The Carrimore Car Transporter Mark IV using the recently introduced Scammell cab was also released in April 1969 and a gift set ( GS48 ) featuring the new transporter and six cars ; MGC GT ( 345 ), Mini Cooper Monte Carlo 1967 ( 339 ), Sunbeam Imp Monte Carlo 1967 ( 340 ), Mini Cooper S Magnifique ( 334 ), Morris Mini Minor ( 226 ) and The Saint's Volvo P1800 ( 258 ) soon followed.

Imp and three
He was saved by Anju who revealed he was in Termina and that a rumor had spread that in three days, the moon would crash into Clock Town because of an evil Imp.

Imp and years
Its main rival on the home market was the BMC Mini which preceded the Imp by nearly four years.
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 ).

Imp and later
Imp., although in India itself the coins said " Empress ", and later " King Emperor ".
Unusually, to attain balanced handling, the Imp actually used swing axle geometry at the front, however this initially led to too much understeer and the camber was later reduced by lowering the pivot points.
A year later, ahead of the 1968 London Motor Show, the recommended retail prices of most Imp models were reduced for the domestic market by more than 4 %, despite the general price inflation affecting the UK.
Subsequently only British drivers competed in the maiden international rallycross event one week later, which was eventually won by Andrew Cowan and his Hillman Imp.
Imp., although in India itself the coins said " Empress ", and later " King Emperor.

Imp and although
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 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.

Imp and continued
Thiokol's Imp, Super-Imp and Spryte were most its popular products were continued by DMC and LMC and were commercial successes but could not support the entire company.
Thiokol's Imp, Super-Imp and Spryte were popular dual-track snowcats and Thiokol's production continued under DMC and LMC.

Imp and be
Imps may be described as fairies in some cases but in most cases the Imp in question is an evil spirit or demon.
' Coupe ' variants badged respectively as the Hillman Imp Californian, the Sunbeam Stiletto and ( as here ) the Singer Chamois coupe featured a more steeply raked rear window which could not be opened.
Known internally within Rootes as the " Apex " project, the Imp was to be the first post-Second World War small car by the Rootes group.
The " Grimsby Imp " can still be seen in St James ' Church, clinging to its sore bottom.
Currently, fish are to be only caught and released in light of the August 2005 CN derailment, which spilled over 700, 000 litres ( 154, 000 Imp gal / 185, 000 US gal ) of Bunker C pole oil into the lake.
Ducats rewarded from Commercing allows access to various rare items sold by the Mercantile Imp, including Fomorian-variant weapons which are stronger than normal weapons, however they cannot be specially upgraded, but are very powerful to begin with.

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