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  • Thumbnail for Sea trial
    hours to many days. Sea trials are conducted to measure a vessel's performance and general seaworthiness. Testing of a vessel's speed, maneuverability, equipment...
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    Mickey Thompson (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
    demonstrated his Ford-powered Harvey Aluminum Special dragster at the Brighton Speed Trials. It was then displayed at the Racing Car Show in London in January 1964...
    21 KB (2,380 words) - 04:22, 21 July 2024
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    Originally, two tracks were prepared; a 10-mile (16 km) long straightaway for speed trials and an oval or circular track for distance runs, which was typically...
    20 KB (1,424 words) - 20:27, 30 June 2024
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    50.817°N 0.123°W / 50.817; -0.123 The Brighton Speed Trials, in full The Brighton National Speed Trials, is commonly held to be the oldest running motor...
    37 KB (3,618 words) - 01:51, 16 July 2024
  • points (Caudron C.278 biplane and Mauboussin M.12). The first trial was a minimal speed trial, to evaluate the aircraft safety, which was new in Challenge...
    20 KB (1,992 words) - 16:09, 11 April 2024
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    The Lewes Speed Trials were speed trials held on a defunct course in Lewes, Sussex, England, sometimes known as "The Motor Road." The first meeting took...
    9 KB (808 words) - 12:31, 15 April 2024
  • Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials (BMST) (AMA Land Speed Grand Championship / FIM Land Speed World Records) is a motorcycle land speed racing event, held...
    58 KB (851 words) - 08:12, 11 May 2024
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    Vande Bharat Express (category Higher-speed rail)
    semi-high speeds of 183 km/h (114 mph) on trials, and crossed target trial speed of 180 km/h (110 mph) on trials, but the maximum operational speed is 160 km/h...
    59 KB (3,310 words) - 09:52, 4 August 2024
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    crossing segment was covered in eight minutes without stoppages. The speed trials for the East-West Metro during the CRS inspection in 2019 had been at...
    17 KB (980 words) - 16:11, 6 August 2024
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    six-cylinder Napier motorcar, a 75 kW (100 hp) development of the K5, in a speed trial in Blackpool. in 1963, Paula Murphy drove a Studebaker Avanti to 262 km/h...
    40 KB (2,245 words) - 22:46, 4 July 2024
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    Vande Bharat (trainset) (category Higher-speed rail)
    Chennai. The train achieved a maximum speed of 183 km/h (114 mph) during its trial runs but the operational speed of the train is restricted to 160 km/h...
    52 KB (4,492 words) - 12:01, 3 August 2024
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    contest, it consisted of three parts: technical trials, a rally over Europe and a maximum speed trial, but there were changes in details. Since one of...
    24 KB (2,591 words) - 02:56, 30 March 2024
  • speed limits were gradually replaced by absolute limits. An absolute speed limit of 70 mph (113 km/h) was introduced to Victoria in 1971, as a trial.: 31 ...
    34 KB (3,586 words) - 17:40, 18 July 2024
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    the line began trial operation with passengers on 7 September 2023 and commercial operations on 17 October 2023. The Whoosh high speed train has served...
    56 KB (5,229 words) - 10:03, 19 July 2024
  • motor-pacing vehicle in front. On land, the speed record registered by a rider on a 200-meter flying start speed trial was 133.28 km/h (82.82 mph) by the Canadian...
    68 KB (6,807 words) - 17:56, 28 July 2024
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    developed by Charles Algernon Parsons. During speed trials, these engines caused significant vibration at high speeds; in response, Mauretania received strengthening...
    43 KB (4,747 words) - 05:56, 26 July 2024
  • following Heatmiser's dissolution. Book-ended by its two singles, "Speed Trials" and "Ballad of Big Nothing", Either/Or did not chart in the US, but...
    23 KB (1,680 words) - 07:38, 7 February 2024
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    John Cobb (racing driver) (category Brighton Speed Trials people)
    Scotland for the speed trial. On 29 September 1952 he was killed at the age of 52 whilst attempting to break the world Water Speed Record at Loch Ness...
    12 KB (1,302 words) - 10:39, 20 March 2024
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    South Indian Railway. A high-speed trial run has been conducted along this line to increase the speed of trains. This trial run at 125kmph was attempted...
    4 KB (257 words) - 15:03, 22 June 2024
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    300 hp (224.99 kW) V6 engine for the six-speed manual transmission model. Other equipment (standard on six-speed manual-equipped versions) includes 18-inch...
    46 KB (4,846 words) - 10:14, 15 July 2024
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