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Vulcan and Foundry
In 1968, GEC merged with English Electric, incorporating Elliott Brothers, the Marconi Company, Ruston & Hornsby, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and the Vulcan Foundry, Willans & Robinson and Dick, Kerr & Co.
The Infantry Tank Mk II was designed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich to General Staff specification A. 12 and built by the Vulcan Foundry.
The first order was placed shortly after trials were completed with 140 ordered from Vulcan Foundry in mid 1938.
Following the initial order from Vulcan Foundry, a second order was placed shortly after with Ruston & Hornsby.
Some 2, 987 tanks were produced by the Vulcan Foundry, John Fowler & Co. of Leeds, Ruston & Hornsby, and later by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at Horwich Works ; Harland and Wolff, and the North British Locomotive Company Glasgow.
** 20 Class 15 Diesel Electric shunters ( 15101-15120 ), manufactured by English Electric's Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
** 26 Class 20 Diesel Electric mainline locomotives ( 20101-20126 ), manufactured by English Electric's Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.
Locomotive building was concentrated in another area within Newton le Willows (' Between 1833 and 1895 the Vulcan Foundry produced some 6, 000 locomotives to become the 4th largest locomotive building firm in the country, almost 70 % of which were exported.
* The Vulcan Foundry Newton-le-Willows
The Vulcan Foundry was opened in 1831 and later developed into one of the world's foremost locomotive manufacturers.
Fairlie locomotive built for Burma Railways by the Vulcan Foundry Co.
EE took over Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns, both with substantial railway engineering pedigrees, in 1955.
Early locomotives ( including DS1173 ) were built by Vulcan Foundry and later examples were built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns.
A clear line of development can be seen in the Class 04s from the 0-4-0DM locomotives built by Andrew Barclay and Drewry / Vulcan Foundry in the early 1940s.
Sixty-five of the 600 Class locomotives were built by English Electric between 1950 and 1957, numbered 601 – 665, at either Dick, Kerr & Co. Works ( 601 – 610 ) in Preston or Vulcan Foundry Works ( remainder ) in Newton-le-Willows.
They were built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire.
All were built at Vulcan Foundry, except a batch of twenty ( Nos.
Following successful trials of the initial locomotives, a production run of 43 locomotives were built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry between 1965 and 1967.
The British Rail Class 83 electric locomotives were built by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows as part of the West Coast Main Line electrification.
Fifteen engines of British Rail Class 83 were built between 1960 and 1962 by English Electric at Vulcan Foundry, as part of British Rail's policy to develop a standard electric locomotive.
The Vulcan Foundry at Newton-le-Willows produced ironwork for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, as well as locomotives ( see: Category: Vulcan Foundry locomotives ).

Vulcan and received
T ' Pol of Vulcan is shown as the first non-human Starfleet officer, having received a commission as a Commander following the Xindi mission and her resignation from the Vulcan High Command.
When the Admiralty received the two reports it was the pioneer of wireless telegraphy Captain ( later, Admiral Sir ) Henry Jackson, then commanding HMS Vulcan, whose opinion led a senior naval officer to report, " it would be unworthy to try to evade the Marconi Company's patent.
Sequential fuel injection was added for 1992 increasing horsepower to 98, but the HSO variant was dropped ( as the sportier versions of the Tempo / Topaz received the 3. 0 L Vulcan as standard equipment for 1992 ).
In 1944 the Vulcan Foundry acquired Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and in 1945 received an order for 120 " Liberation " 2-8-0 locomotives for UNRRA in Europe.
While power output of the new Vulcan 2G22 did not change for the sedan ( A104A ), the van ( A104V ) received a lower powered version thereof.

Vulcan and its
Vulcan, like Earth, had its aggressive, colonizing period, and if they have retained that martial philosophy ... then weakness is something we dare not show.
In keeping with this idea, for its first two seasons Star Trek: Enterprise was the only show to have an entirely Human crew owing to its being set before the formation of the Federation, though the vessel did carry Phlox, a Denobulan serving in a medical exchange program, and T ' Pol, then serving as an observer from the Vulcan High Command.
While the V bombers no longer held precedence in Britain's nuclear strategic planning, superseded by aircraft such as the SEPECAT Jaguar and Panavia Tornado, which carried smaller tactical nuclear weapons, the Avro Vulcan would be perhaps best remembered for its conventional long range bombing raids during the 1982 Falklands War.
From the day of its deployment in the deterrent force, an on-alert Vulcan was ready to launch, and strike, limited only by the readiness state established for her crew.
Some legends state that Virgil, fearing that he would die before he had properly revised the poem, gave instructions to friends ( including the current emperor, Augustus ) that the Aeneid should be burned upon his death, owing to its unfinished state and because he had come to dislike one of the sequences in Book VIII, in which Venus and Vulcan have sexual intercourse, for its nonconformity to Roman moral virtues.
With the loss of its principal proponent, however, the search for Vulcan abated.
The development of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter revealed that the T171 Vulcan ( later redesignated M61 ) suffered problems with its linked ammunition, being prone to misfeed and presenting a foreign object damage ( FOD ) hazard with discarded links.
The success of the Vulcan Project and its subsequent progeny, the very-high-speed Gatling gun, has led to guns of the same configuration being referred to as Vulcan Cannon, which can sometimes confuse nomenclature on the subject.
The self-powered Vulcan weighs about more than its electric counterpart, but requires no external power source to operate.
As his mate was not available on the Genesis planet ( where Spock underwent the two pon farr periods ), it was implied that he mated with Lt. Saavik, a female Vulcan scientist on the crew of the Enterprise who showed compassion in guiding him through the accelerated pon farr ( in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, a deleted scene was intended to confirm the implication ( i. e., that Saavik bore Spock's child ); its removal from the film, however, struck it from ' official ' Trek canon ).
As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.
In the alternate timeline of the 2009 film, Nero destroyed Vulcan by creating a singularity in its core as part of his quest to avenge the destruction of Romulus.
Soval also explained that, since Earth recovered from World War III far more quickly than Vulcan did from its equivalent ( in " The Forge " and its sequel episodes, it is said that Vulcans took almost a thousand years to rebuild their society after their last catastrophic war ), it alarmed many Vulcans, who were confused as to how to deal with a rapidly growing and emotional society such as Earth's.
In the alternate reality presented by the 2009 film Star Trek, the planet Vulcan is destroyed in the year 2258 by an artificial black hole created by the Narada, a Romulan mining vessel from the future, killing most of its six billion inhabitants.
* Vulcan, Alberta-a town in Canada that has incorporated Star Trek themes due to its name
In the 2011 Census, the Town of Vulcan had a population of 1, 836 living in 768 of its 865 total dwellings, a-5. 4 % change from its 2006 population of 1, 940.
The cause or causes of the fire remained uncertain, but its disastrous extent was taken as a sign of offense against Juno, Vulcan, and Ceres-with-Proserpina, who were all were given expiatory cult.
In 1971 Birmingham celebrated its centennial with a round of public-works improvements, including the upgrading of Vulcan Park.
Tuvok is a Vulcan who serves as the ship's chief of security and its chief tactical officer.
Charlton also had middling success with Son of Vulcan, its answer to Marvel's Thor, in Mysteries of Unexplored Worlds # 46 ( May 1965 ).

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