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• Regenerative braking
  ...ectric [[railway]] vehicles feed the generated electricity back into the [[Railway electrification system|supply system]]. In [[Battery electric vehicle|batte ...the desired total braking output. the GM [[EV-1]] was the first commercial car to do this. Engineers Abraham Farag and Loren Majersik were issued 2 patent
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• Bertoli
  ...r the railways. The widespread use of ''Bertoli'' trolleys in Italy (every railway station has them), coupled with their strength and reliability, made the co {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}
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• Aerfer
  ...''Costruzioni '''Aer'''onautiche e '''Fer''' roviarie'' (Aeronautical and Railway Constructors). Based in [[Naples]], [[Italy]], mainly an aeroplane builder, {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}
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• Brake (railway)
  [[Brakes]] are used on [[railway]] [[train]]s to bring the train to a standstill. ...sure can also be used to operate loading and unloading doors on [[Railroad car#Freight cars|wheat, coal and ballast wagons]]. On passenger coaches, the ma
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• Knockhill Racing Circuit
  ...g and 10 metres wide, created by joining service roads to a nearby disused railway. ...age driving. Best sellers are the 4x4 driving and the single seater racing car driving. There are 27 different options for experiences at Knockhill.
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• Brake
  * [[Brake (railway)]] *[http://www.opencortex.org/cn00000233 Resource on Stanfords solar car brakes]
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• Officine Meccaniche
  '''Officine Meccaniche''' (OM) was an [[Italy|Italian]] car and truck manufacturing company, founded in [[1899]] in [[Milan]] as Societ ...the former [[Brixia-Zust (Brixia-Züst)]], just after OM took over [[Zust]] car company of [[Brescia]], Northern Italy.
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• Electro-pneumatic brake system on British railway trains
  From the 1920’s, the Southern Railway of the UK and its predecessor companies had adopted electrification and mul ...ass_416|2-EPB]] and [[British_Rail_Class_415|4-EPB]] for the two- and four-car units respectively. The design was successful, and a larger fleet of broadl
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• Piaggio
  ...by Rinaldo Piaggio in [[1884]], Piaggio initially produced locomotives and railway carriages. During [[World War I]] the company focused on producing airplane ...er products. In [[1957]] they produced the [[Vespa 400]], a tiny passenger car.
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• OMC
  ...Arsenal Taranto by [[Taranto]] and [[Ministry of Communications]] for the Railway. Also, was inserted between the workshops, in case of war, were mobilized f {{A-Z multipage list|Car Information and Photos by Marque|Information and Photos by Marque|}}
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• Polizia di Stato
  [[Image:polizia.di.stato.car.arp.jpg|thumb|right|''Polizia di Stato'' Alfa Romeo 156 in [[Rome]]]] ...towns. Their duties are the prevention and detection of driving offences, car accident reports, planning and carrying out of services to regulate traffic
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• Alfa Romeo 6C
  ...to good fortune within just two years of his takeover by making tractors, railway equipment, aero [[engines]], [[pumps]] and [[compressors]]; the production ...as he brought with him unrivaled flair, experience and the latest in race car design. [[Enzo Ferrari]], too, had joined the company as a works driver. Th
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• Tire
  ...m [[wear and tear]] as well as to provide a high-friction bond between the car and the road to improve acceleration and handling. Today most tires, espec ...ges. By Dunlop's time, the bicycle had been fully developed (see [[Rover (car)|Rover]]) and it proved a far more suitable application for pneumatic tires
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• Castagna
  ...combine to form the internal furnishing fitted in the Wagon-Lits company's railway carriages are produced, even those for the legendary Orient Express. ...mic engineer Bergmann, which leads to the creation of numerous aerodynamic car bodies; a reminder of the first aerodynamic people-carrier vehicle in histo
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• Electric car
  ...hnology-proving experimental or [[solar power]]ed vehicles include [[Solar car|sun racer]]s, [[electrathon]]s, the aerial [[Helios Prototype]], and some [ Electric motive power started with a small railway operated by a miniature electric motor, built by [[Thomas Davenport]] in [[
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• Octopussy
  ...viet base. He confronts Orlov, who escapes. Bond then follows the train by car, which he even manages to drive on the rails. Also following the train is [ ...rsued by Kamal. Bond is forced off, and pursues it on foot and by taking a car. Kamal and his servant know about the bomb and leave, on their way out pass
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• Alfa Romeo
  ...11 [[Targa Florio]] with two 24 HP models. In 1914, an advanced Grand Prix car was designed and built, the [[Alfa Romeo Grand Prix|GP1914]] which featured ...Romeo with the [[Alfa Romeo 20/30 HP|Torpedo 20-30 HP]] becoming the first car to be badged as such.Their first success came in 1920 when [[Giuseppe Campa
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• GoldenEye
  ...attack by Simonova. He kills Mishkin and captures Simonova, escaping in a car; Bond pursues in a [[tank]] to an [[armoured train]], where he kills Ourumo ...s revealed that she was sent by M to "evaluate" him. After a cat-and-mouse car chase between her, Bond, and Onatopp, Caroline finally gives in to Bond's c
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• Italian Army
  : Railway Engineers Regiment in [[Castel Maggiore]] (near [[Bologna]]) ...h the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2004 - a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five
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• Vienna
  ...he final 50 meters: the S-Bahn and the CAT leave from the same underground railway station, but from different platforms. For more information check out http: ...o "Schwedenplatz" very close to the city center, the other one to the main railway stations.
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