Because Coughlan surpassed the mark indoors and before the IAAF validated indoor performances as being eligible for outdoor records, World Masters Athletics still had not recognized a sub-4 minute mile performance as a record in the M40 division.

By the time of the motorway's full opening, the remaining parts of the original M40 had been widened to dual three motorway creating a dual three lane motorway from start to finish.

* 9 August 2003: Jimmy Davis, 21, Manchester United and England U-21 striker, died in a car crash on the M40 just hours before the club to whom he had been loaned-Watford-were due to play.

The M40 was the result of a program in the 1980s to develop a successor to the M17-series protective masks which had been in service with the US armed forces from the 1960s.

Thus, the masks were effectively ill-suited for protecting against much more than riot control agents, and a butyl rubber ' Second Skin ' had to be quickly issued for fitting over and reinforcing the M40 facepiece to make it effective in its intended role.

The M40 / M42 masks became the standard field mask of the U. S. Army, and, as of 2010, over two million had been produced and sold.

There was no consistent approach to this renumbering-some retained their existing number as non-primary A roads ( e. g. the A40 running alongside the M40 ), others were given ' less significant ' numbers ( e. g. the A34 in Warwickshire became the A3400 after the M40 was built ) and the remainder were downgraded to B or unclassified roads ( e. g. the A38, which has been replaced by the M5 between Tiverton and Exeter ).

It is one of the few remaining of the " old " trunk routes not to have been superseded by a direct motorway link, though some parts, such as the southern section from London to Oxford are now better served by the M40.

With the building of the M40 in the 60s and 70s the road has been relieved, but it still gets heavily congested.

This historic market centre is one of the fastest growing towns in Oxfordshire Development has been favoured by its proximity to junction 9 of the M40 motorway linking it to London, Birmingham and Banbury.

Well-known outcrops include the White Cliffs of Dover, the southern coastal cliffs of the Isle of Wight and the quarries and motorway cuttings at Blue Bell Hill, Kent, ( which has been classified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest ) and at the Stokenchurch Gap on the Oxfordshire / Buckinghamshire border where the M40 motorway cuts through the Aston Rowant NNR.

Other important characteristics are the M10, M25, and M40 test crush indexes, which convey the strength of coke during transportation into the blast furnaces ; depending on blast furnaces size, finely crushed coke pieces must not be allowed into the blast furnaces because they would impede gas dynamics.

It was also planned that the M42 between junctions 3A to the M5 would be renumbered as part of the M40 but this change did not take place.

A stronger version of the M40 gearbox designed to withstand the higher power of the B30 engine, It can be identified by the drain plug being on the opposite side to the M40.

Owners have found that while the bearings ' lifespan might be similar to that of the M40, the torque capacity is in the order of double.

It mounted six M40 106 mm recoilless rifles as its main armament, which could be fired in rapid succession against single targets to guarantee a kill.

The section of M42 between the M40 ( junction 3a ) and the M5 ( junction 4a ) was scheduled to be re-designated as an extension of the M40 at the same time, but this re-designation never took place.

The favoured site for the new stadium now appears to be Wycombe Air Park, a site owned by Wycombe District Council and close to the M40 motorway.

In the modern day, West Drayton tends to be more of a commuter town, owing to its proximity to the M25, M4, M40 and M3 motorways, Heathrow Airport and Stockley Business Park.

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Also there is hope that the C & PRR could but will one day extend their heritage line services towards Aston Rowant terminating near the A40, As extending beyond the A40, towards Watlington, will be completely difficult as the M40 motorway has blocked the route of the old line.

The M40 was to be a return to conventional gas mask design with an external side-mounted filter canister, rather than the internal cheek filters of the M17, which were awkward to change, especially in a contaminated environment.

Despite lacking a railway station, and despite its relative distance from the M4 and M40, Benson is today a thriving commuter village, with a Church of England primary school ( separate primary and junior schools recently combined, allowing one to be sold off for housing development ), a pre-school, a doctor's surgery, two public houses including 18th century coaching inn The Crown Inn and The Three Horseshoes ( down from five since 1990-the closed ones having become private homes ) and about a dozen small shops, including a supermarket and a dispensing chemist.

The M40 was a very successful export item and continues to be used by South Korea ( ROK ), Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Greece, Honduras, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, the Philippines, Taiwan ( Republic of China Marine Corps ), Turkey, Colombia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Venezuela and many others.

Scout Sniper teams train to engage man-sized targets with the M40 out to 1000 yards, and can be effective at a range of up to with the M82 if the environment is right.

The M40 motorway is a motorway in the British transport network that forms a major part of the connection between London and Birmingham.

This is a major excavation which eases the M40 motorway from the Chilterns into the Vale of Oxford.

It is close to the major trunk routes of the M1 junction 16, M40 motorway, and A5 road, in secluded location at the head of a picturesque valley.

Stratford is close to the UK's second largest city, Birmingham, and is easily accessible from junction 15 of the M40 motorway.

A short drive along the M4 motorway leads directly into London or along the M40 motorway to Hillingdon for the London Underground.

Landmarks in the suburb include the A40, a large road that connects Central London with the M40 motorway, and the large Art Deco Hoover Building, as well as St Mary's Church ( C: 15th century ), the River Brent and Perivale Wood Local Nature Reserve run by the Selborne Society.

The southern section continues the descent with the final seven of the Lapworth locks, passing under the M40 motorway just before the final one.

It completed an uninterrupted motorway from just south of Dunblane ( via the M9, the recently opened M80 section near Cumbernauld and the M73 ) in the north to Exeter ( via the M5 ) and to London ( via both the M42 / M40 and the M1 ) in the south.

Warwick Castle is about from Warwick railway station and less than from junction 15 of the M40 motorway ; it is also close to Birmingham International Airport.

The track is located on the Wildmere Industrial Estate, close to Junction 11 linking the town to the M40 motorway.

The M40 motorway at junction 9 is away and the M25 motorway is just over drive.

Oxford is about south-west via the A43 road, M40 motorway and A34 road.

As part of the Ring Road and a feeder route to the A40 ( and hence the M40 motorway ) ( to the west ) and the A5 and M1 motorway ( to the north ) much of the traffic leaving central London for the Midlands and the North of England travels on this road.

Although late in the 1960s, not long after the first stretch of the M40 opened, the Ministry of Transport announced the possibility of building a motorway to link London with Birmingham as an alternative to the M1-M6 routeas well as improving road links to the South Coast ports for The Midlandsit was not until 1983 that the decision to extend the M40 from Oxford to the south of Birmingham was made.

In 2009 the Highways Agency extended the Active Traffic Management ( ATM ) system that was previously introduced on the M42 motorway onto the northbound carriageway of the M40 from junction 16 through to the junction with the M42.

* M40 motorway, a motorway in England