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1. England – England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west, the Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east, the country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly, and the Isle of Wight. England became a state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the worlds first industrialised nation, Englands terrain mostly comprises low hills and plains, especially in central and southern England. However, there are uplands in the north and in the southwest, the capital is London, which is the largest metropolitan area in both the United Kingdom and the European Union. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, leading to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the name England is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means land of the Angles. The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages, the Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded use of the term, as Engla londe, is in the ninth century translation into Old English of Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its spelling was first used in 1538. The earliest attested reference to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, the etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars, it has been suggested that it derives from the shape of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. An alternative name for England is Albion, the name Albion originally referred to the entire island of Great Britain. The nominally earliest record of the name appears in the Aristotelian Corpus, specifically the 4th century BC De Mundo, in it are two very large islands called Britannia, these are Albion and Ierne. But modern scholarly consensus ascribes De Mundo not to Aristotle but to Pseudo-Aristotle, the word Albion or insula Albionum has two possible origins. Albion is now applied to England in a poetic capacity. Another romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, the earliest known evidence of human presence in the area now known as England was that of Homo antecessor, dating to approximately 780,000 years ago. The oldest proto-human bones discovered in England date from 500,000 years ago, Modern humans are known to have inhabited the area during the Upper Paleolithic period, though permanent settlements were only established within the last 6,000 years
2. Beagle Aircraft – Beagle Aircraft Limited was a British light aircraft manufacturer of types such as the Airedale, Basset, Husky and Pup. It had factories at Rearsby in Leicestershire and Shoreham in Sussex, the company was dissolved in 1969. G Miles Limited of Shoreham, Sussex. Initially the three parts of the company operated independently, the Rearsby factory as Beagle-Auster Limited and the Shoreham factory as Beagle-Miles Limited and this did not last long and the three parts of the company were merged at Shoreham as Beagle Aircraft Limited in 1962. In 1965 the parent company Pressed Steel was acquired by the British Motor Corporation, the company reviewed the involvement in light aircraft manufacturing and requested financial help from the British Government. The British government bought Beagle in 1966 and provided the help needed, when the company needed more financial help in 1969, the Government put the company into receivership. The Receiver tried to revive and sell the company, but failed, the Beagle B.206 was a twin piston-engined design evolved from the Bristol 220 project made in small numbers from 1961 to 1969. At this time Beagle also sold the Airedale, Terrier and D5/180 Husky, in 1967 the single-engined Beagle Pup made its first flight and was made and sold in greater numbers until the companys bankruptcy. Beagle also collaborated with Ken Wallis in building five Wallis WA-116 autogyros at Shoreham in 1962 for evaluation by the British Army and this collaboration ended when the British Army chose the Westland Sioux for this role. Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom British Aircraft Directory
3. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars – Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited engineers, manufactures and distributes luxury automobiles and automobile parts worldwide. Rolls-Royce Motors Cars Limited is the manufacturer of Rolls-Royce branded motor cars since 2003. Although the Rolls-Royce brand has been in use since 1906, the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars subsidiary of BMW AG has no relationship to Rolls-Royce branded vehicles produced prior to 2003. The Rolls-Royce Phantom four-door sedan was the first product offered for sale in 2003, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited has been manufacturing Rolls-Royce branded cars since 2003. Current chief executive Torsten Müller-Ötvös joined the company in January 2010 and that year, the companys sales in China increased by 600%, meaning that it is now Rolls-Royces second largest market after the US. In 1998, Vickers decided to sell Rolls-Royce Motors, the most likely buyer was BMW, who already supplied engines and other components for Rolls-Royce and Bentley cars, but BMWs final offer of £340 million was beaten by Volkswagens £430 million. BMWs contract to supply engines and components to Rolls-Royce Motors allowed BMW to cancel the contract with 12 months notice, volkswagen would be unable to re-engineer the Rolls-Royce and Bentley vehicles to use other engines within that time frame. With the Rolls-Royce brand identification marks split between the two companies and Volkswagens engine supply in jeopardy, the two entered into negotiations. Volkswagen agreed to sell BMW the Spirit of Ecstasy and grill shape trademarks and BMW agreed to supplying engines. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited became the manufacturer of Rolls-Royce branded cars in 2003. From 2010 – Ghost 4-door sedan, Rolls-Royce announced in September 2006 that it would develop a new four-door model named Ghost. The Ghost will be smaller than the previous Rolls-Royce automobile launched, only 20% of the components would be sourced from BMW F017 Series, and it will be positioned below the Phantom. On 4 March 2014, the new Ghost Series II was revealed to the public at the Geneva Motor Show and it has a facelift front with new LED headlights. The interior has had an update as well, from 2013 – Rolls-Royce Wraith coupé. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars launched a new car at the Geneva Motor Show on 5 March 2013, the new car, named the Rolls-Royce Wraith was a luxury coupe, with a long bonnet and a sleek roof line, and was a coupe version of the Ghost. It was powered by a 623 bhp, twin-turbocharged V12 engine connected to an eight-speed gearbox, deliveries were expected to begin by the end of 2013. Rolls-Royce had stated that the Wraith would be the most powerful Rolls-Royce motor car to that date, from 2015 – Rolls-Royce Dawn 2015 Rolls-Royce announced the production of SUV for the very first time in the company history. According to Rolls-Royce, the new SUV will set new standards among cars of this segment
4. West Sussex – West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering East Sussex to the east, Hampshire to the west and Surrey to the north, and to the south the English Channel. Chichester in the southwest is the county town and only city in West Sussex, with the largest towns being Crawley, Worthing, West Sussex has a range of scenery, including wealden, downland and coastal. The highest point of the county is Blackdown, at 280 metres and it has a number of stately homes including Goodwood, Petworth House and Uppark and also castles such as Arundel Castle and Bramber Castle. Over half the county is protected countryside, offering walking, cycling, although the name Sussex, derived from the Old English Sūþsēaxe, is from the Saxon period between AD477 to 1066, the history of human habitation in Sussex goes back to the Old Stone Age. The oldest hominin remains known in Britain were found at Eartham Pit, Sussex has been occupied since those times and has succumbed to various invasions and migrations throughout its long history. Prehistoric monuments include the Devils Jumps, a group of Bronze Age burial mounds, the Romans used the Weald for iron production on an industrial scale. The foundation story is regarded as somewhat of a myth by most historians, the Kingdom of Sussex was absorbed into Wessex as an earldom and became the county of Sussex. With its origins in the kingdom of Sussex, the county of Sussex was traditionally divided into six units known as rapes. By the 16th century, the three western rapes were grouped together informally, having their own separate Quarter Sessions and these were administered by a separate county council from 1888, the county of Sussex being divided for administrative purposes into the administrative counties of East and West Sussex. In 1974, West Sussex was made a ceremonial county with the coming into force of the Local Government Act 1972. At the same time a part of the eastern rape of Lewes was transferred into West Sussex. Until 1834 provision for the poor and destitute in West Sussex was made at parish level, from 1835 until 1948 eleven Poor Law Unions, each catering for several parishes, took on the job. Most settlements in West Sussex are either along the south coast or in Mid Sussex, the town of Crawley is the largest in the county with an estimated population of 106,600. The coastal settlement of Worthing closely follows with a population of 104,600, the seaside resort of Bognor Regis and market town Horsham are both large towns. Chichester, the county town, has a cathedral and city status, much of the coastal town population is part of the Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. Rustington and Southwater are the next largest settlements in the county, there are several more towns in West Sussex, although they are of similar size to other villages. The smaller towns of the county are Arundel, Midhurst, Petworth, Selsey, the larger villages are Billingshurst, Copthorne, Crawley Down, Cuckfield, Henfield, Hassocks, Hurstpierpoint, Lindfield, Pulborough and Storrington. The current total population of the county makes up 1. 53% of Englands population, West Sussex is bordered by Hampshire to the west, Surrey to the north and East Sussex to the east
5. The Body Shop – The Body Shop International plc, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics and skin care company owned by LOréal. It was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick and currently has a range of 1,000 products which it sells in 3,000 franchised stores in 66 countries, the company is based in Littlehampton, West Sussex, United Kingdom. In 1970, Anita Roddick visited The Body Shop housed in a car garage in Berkeley, California selling naturally-scented soaps. The shop run by Peggy Short and Jane Saunders used natural ingredients, six years later, in 1976, Roddick opened a similar shop in the UK, using the same business name, colour scheme, and cosmetic lines. In 1987, Roddick offered Short and Saunders $3.5 million to purchase the name The Body Shop, from its first launch in the UK in 1976, The Body Shop experienced rapid growth, expanding at a rate of 50 percent annually. The Body Shop stock was floated on Londons Unlisted Securities Market in April 1984, after it obtained a full listing on the London Stock Exchange, the stock was given the nickname The shares that defy gravity, as its price increased by more than 500%. The Body Shop turned increasingly toward social and environmental campaigns to promote its business in the late 1980s, in 1997, Roddick launched a global campaign to raise self-esteem in women and against the media stereotyping of women. It focused on unreasonably skinny models in the context of rising numbers in bulimia and anorexia, in March 2006, The Body Shop agreed to a £652.3 million takeover by LOréal. It was reported that Anita and Gordon Roddick, who set up The Body Shop 30 years previously, there was a media controversy surrounding claims that LOréal continues to test on animals, which contradicts The Body Shops core value of Against Animal Testing. LOréal states the company has not tested cosmetics on animals since 1989, Animal testing on cosmetics ceased for all cosmetic companies in Europe as well as cosmetics imports when the European Union passed legislation banning all testing for personal care products. Since March 2013, the Group has taken another step, The Group no longer tests on animal, anywhere in the world. An exception could be made if regulatory authorities required it for safety or regulatory purposes, suppliers who had formerly worked with the Body Shop will in future have contracts with LOréal, and working with the company 25 days a year Roddick was able to have an input into decisions. Following her death in 2007, Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid tribute to Dame Anita, calling her one of the true pioneers. He said, She campaigned for green issues for years before it became fashionable to do so. She will be remembered not only as a great campaigner but also as a great entrepreneur, the social activism dimension of the company first evidenced in 1986 when The Body Shop proposed an alliance with Greenpeace in the UK to save the whales. Roddick began launching other promotions tied to social causes, with much public, the Body Shop regularly featured posters on shop windows and sponsorship of local charity and community events. The first Community Trade activity in 1987 was a roller which was supplied by a small community in Southern India. Since then, The Body Shop has found many trade partners in over 20 different countries that often are overlooked by the local as well as the global society, criticism has been made of the programme by fair trade activists
6. Dutton Cars – Dutton Cars, based in Worthing, Sussex, England, was a maker of kit cars between 1970 and 1989. In terms of numbers of kits produced, it was the largest kit car manufacturer in the world, the company was founded by Tim Dutton-Woolley and run from a small workshop in which a series of cars named P1 were built. In October 1971 the B-Type appeared with a more or less standard specification, a move was also made to a larger factory in Tangmere, Chichester. The B-Type eventually evolved into the Dutton Phaeton, later versions of the Phaeton were based on Ford Escort components and were produced until 1989. These were also available as fully built-up cars, in case they received a 1.6 litre Ford Crossflow engine with 84 hp. In 1979 Dutton launched the Dutton Sierra, an Escort-based estate car with off-road looks, three years later the Ford Motor Company decided to use the Sierra name on their Cortina/Taunus replacement and served Dutton with a legal writ demanding that they stop using the name. But at a case in the High Court in London, Dutton won the right to continue with the name on kit cars, the case was popularly portrayed as a gritty David and Goliath battle, and provided Dutton with some welcome publicity. The Sierra was Duttons best seller for years, production reaching a peak of 22 cars a week. The model was withdrawn in 1989, a further move to larger premises back in Worthing was made in 1982 with glass-fibre body making at a separate works in Lancing. On the usual rear-wheel drive Ford Escort underpinnings Dutton placed the body of the new Rico and it made its debut in October 1984, at the Birmingham Motor Show. It used the parts and doors from a two-door Escort but had a Dutton-developed glassfibre body over a steel tubular frame. The Rico was a compact and aerodynamic two-door saloon,3,911 mm long, by 1984,80 people were employed spread over four factories and a large showroom in Worthing – production topped 1,000 a year. By 1989 Tim Dutton had got bored with the kit-car scene, a new model had been developed called the Maroc, a heavily modified Ford Fiesta with a convertible body. Initially it was available as a car but prices became too high. The design has been sold on to Novus of Bolney, Sussex, the Dutton Surf, based on the current Suzuki Jimny, was introduced in 2005. Tim Dutton is now a record holder as the person to have crossed the English Channel twice in an amphibious car. Early Dutton kits are now hard to come by, most Duttons have already been assembled and are only available to purchase as second-hand cars, usually in need of some restoration. When a Dutton is purchased in kit form the building it will require a donor car
7. Eagle Cars Limited – Eagle Cars Limited was an English company, based in Lancing, West Sussex, originally operated by Allen Breeze, although it has undergone a number of ownership changes since. Originally making a Jeep lookalike called the RV, between 1981 and 1998 they built several iterations of a car called the Eagle SS. The SS was based on an American kit car called the Cimbria, in 1988 Eagle Cars moved inland, to nearby Storrington. Founded by Tim Dutton Allen Breeze in 1981, the company was sold to trials motorcyclist Rob Budd in 1989, Eagle Cars Limited changed location again in the nineties, moving to Walberton. The company officially ceased trading in 1998, but production had ended long before, the SS moulds were sold by Tim Naylor of TEAC Sports Cars in 2012 on eBay to a buyer from Wexford, nothing more has been heard of them since. The fate of the RV moulds is also unknown, the bodywork was from glass fiber-reinforced plastic, molded in a single colour. The total weight of a finished SS was promised to be around 750 kg, a top speed of 200 km/h with a tuned VW engine was also promised. Three basic versions were produced, MkI, had a separate internal roll cage, long nose, both bonnet and boot lids had ribbed sections, boot lid ribs could be opened up as louvers for better air flow for the VW engine if desired. Ford versions had the bump on the bonnet to accommodate the engine, mkIII, back to one piece nose, slightly higher roof, both versions now had built in steel bars to the cabin area. Chassis was a version at 2,400 mm, while the car was 4,240 mm long,1,780 mm wide. First mentioned in 1984, a targa-roofed 2+2-seater version called the 2 Plus was also available, later, Eagle engineered a front-engined, tubular framed chassis for the SS. This used Ford Cortina running gear, and was recognized by its conspicuous bonnet bulge. Eagle also claimed it possible and indeed has been done, to fit this version of the SS with Rovers familiar 3. 5-litre V8. At least one car was built on the Ford Sierra 4x4 running gear, the Series 3 SS was somewhat taller, at 1,120 mm. In 2005 the rights to the Eagle SS were rescued from a Kent boat yard by Tim Naylor of TEAC Sports Cars, anyone knowing where they are should contact the Eagle Owners Club. Www. eagleownersclub. org. uk Approximately only 340 of each version covering all three marks were made, a total of 680+ cars of which 180 are accounted for on the E. O. C. Register and under a handful are currently on the road Eagle Cars fibreglass-bodied Jeep-lookalike, there was also an Eagle RV 4X4, unusual for kit cars in that it had four-wheel drive. Later a Ford Sierra-based two-seater, two-door convertible called the Milan 2 Plus and this was first seen in 1988 and was co-developed with Milan-Automobile of Remscheid, Germany
8. International Automotive Design – International Automotive Design was a British design company, based in West Sussex, England. IAD UK Ltd was founded in 1976 by John and Yvonne Shute. IAD UK Ltd had at its peak a large R&D facility in Worthing, West Sussex, UK plus 5 overseas operations in the USA, France, Spain and Germany along with offices in Korea, Japan. The US, German and Spanish offices having their own Styling studios and it was the worlds largest R&D consultancy not only working in Automotive, Commercial Vehicles and Aerospace. The British company was in competition with Ital Design, Pininfarina, by the early 1990s the company employed over 1400 professionals. The company was awarded the Queens Award for Export and Industry many times, IAD amassed a talented group of designers, engineers and prototype builders who have subsequently gone on to senior positions within the automotive industry. They specialized in car prototyping and engineering design, mayflower Corp. purchased IAD after it went into receivership in the early 1990s with the Engineering, Design groups and facilities were sold to Daewoo Motors 1993. Mazda came to IAD to replicate the true British sports car invoking the MGs success of handling, the founder John Shute was a great entrepreneur who was a tough but shrewd businessman. He saw possibilities for expansion in the Automotive R&D consultancy business and he had a knack along with his sales team of getting projects out of a manufacturer which would often led to bigger projects later on. Overall John, who died from cancer in the 1990s was a character who suffered fools badly
9. Business – A business is an organizational entity involved in the provision of goods and services to consumers. Businesses may also be social non-profit enterprises or state-owned public enterprises operated by governments with specific social, a business owned by multiple private individuals may form as an incorporated company or jointly organise as a partnership. Countries have different laws that may ascribe different rights to the business entities. The word business can refer to an organization or to an entire market sector or to the sum of all economic activity. Compound forms such as agribusiness represent subsets of the broader meaning. Businesses aim to maximize sales to have their income exceed their expenditures, resulting in a profit, the owner operates the business alone and may hire employees. A sole proprietor has unlimited liability for all obligations incurred by the business, partnership, A partnership is a business owned by two or more people. In most forms of partnerships, each partner has unlimited liability for the debts incurred by the business, the three most prevalent types of for-profit partnerships are, general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships. Corporation, The owners of a corporation have limited liability and the business has a legal personality from its owners. Corporations can be either government-owned or privately owned and they can organize either for profit or as nonprofit organizations. A privately owned, for-profit corporation is owned by its shareholders, a privately owned, for-profit corporation can be either privately held by a small group of individuals, or publicly held, with publicly traded shares listed on a stock exchange. Cooperative, Often referred to as a co-op, a cooperative is a limited-liability business that can organize as for-profit or not-for-profit, a cooperative differs from a corporation in that it has members, not shareholders, and they share decision-making authority. Cooperatives are typically classified as either consumer cooperatives or worker cooperatives, cooperatives are fundamental to the ideology of economic democracy. In contrast, unincorporated businesses or persons working on their own are not as protected. Franchises, A franchise is a system in which entrepreneurs purchase the rights to open, franchising in the United States is widespread and is a major economic powerhouse. One out of retail businesses in the United States are franchised and 8 million people are employed in a franchised business. Real estate businesses sell, invest, construct and develop properties – including land, residential homes, retailers, wholesalers, and distributors act as middlemen and get goods produced by manufacturers to the intended consumers, they make their profits by marking up their prices. Most stores and catalog companies are distributors or retailers, transportation businesses such as railways, airlines, shipping companies that deliver goods and individuals to their destinations for a fee
10. RISC OS Open – RISC OS Open Ltd. is a limited company engaged in computer software and IT consulting. It is managing the process of publishing the source code to RISC OS, company founders include staff who formerly worked for Pace, the company which acquired RISC OS after Acorns demise. The source code publication is facilitated by a shared source initiative between ROOL and Castle Technology, ROOL hopes that by making the RISC OS source code available for free it will help stimulate development of both the RISC OS source code and the platform as a whole. A development version of RISC OS5 has been available for the BeagleBoard, ROOL set initial goals to make the source code easily available, and also to establish a wiki, forum and bug tracker. These have been available since December 2006, operations exist to facilitate tasks related to ROOLs goals. Additionally, staff undertake development work on the code themselves, since early 2009, ownership, development and sales of the Acorn C/C++ tools were transferred to RISC OS Open. As a development from the goals, in 2011 ROOL introduced a bounty scheme to encourage further development. Attendance at RISC OS computer shows is often arranged, with other knowledgeable coders sometimes standing in when ROOL staff are unavailable, a Facebook page was created in 2012. Discussions of a technical and more general nature take place on the forum, a thread entitled Lets get started with a Pandora port witnessed discussion of porting to the Cortex-A8 used in the Pandora handheld game console. The thread was started in September 2008
11. Southern Water – Some areas within the Southern Water region are supplied by a number of smaller water supply companies. It is regulated under the Water Industry Act 1991 The Water Act 1973 resulted in the formation of the Southern Water Authority, the company was subsequently purchased in a hostile takeover bid by Scottish Power. Southern Water assets where considerably impacted during the period under Scottish Power, during this period, the bulk of in-house scientific laboratory services and assets were shut down, dismantled and sold off. The Scottish Power period was the most damaging to the due to the reduction of company assets for little financial gain. In 2002, Scottish Power sold the company, in October 2007, Greensands Investments Limited purchased Southern Water Capital Limited, the owners of Southern Water Services Limited. Today the company supplies drinking water to one million households through its 95 water supply works and 13,700 kilometres of water mains. Wastewater is treated by the network of 370 wastewater treatment works. Also, the treatment of sludge results in a granulated fertiliser which the company sells to the farming industry. Southern Water has also opened up some of their activities to the public and this includes the company running guided tours of the Victorian sewers of Brighton and Hove and public access to Bewl Water, one of the largest reservoirs in England. In 2007 Southern Water was fined £20.3 million for deliberate misreporting and failing to meet guaranteed standards of service to customers, Southern Water Chief Executive Les Dawson said, Todays announcement draws a line under a shameful period in the companys history. In 2011 Southern Water Ltd was fined £25,000 when sewage flooded into Southampton water, continuing poor publicity surrounds the sewer which serves the Nailbourne Valley in East Kent. Southern Water was fined £50,000 in April 2011 for two offences relating to unscreened discharges into Langstone Harbour, Hampshire, between November 2009 and April 2010. Crawley Magistrates Court heard that the Environment Agency received calls from members of the public after dead fish were seen in the Sunnyside Stream in East Grinstead on 30 August 2009, Southern Water is investing £1.8 billion in its assets between 2010 and 2015
