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Dialight. Dialight plc is a British-based electronics business specialising in light-emitting diode lighting for hazardous locations. It is headquartered in London and operates in North America, the United Kingdom, mainland Europe, Australia, Asia and South America. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap, and FTSE techMARK Focus indices.

History

The business was founded in 1938 and became part of the Dutch company Philips in 1963. In 1990, through a management buyout, it became part of Roxboro Group, which was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1993. In 2005, it was renamed Dialight.

In 2012, Dialight announced that they would expand their manufacturing capabilities in Malaysia.

In 2023, it was revealed that Dialight had been involved in prolonged legal proceedings with its former manufacturing partner,  Sanmina Corporation, regarding the termination of their manufacturing services agreement. Dialight filed the lawsuit seeking compensation for what it alleged were Sanmina’s fraudulent actions, gross negligence, and breaches of their contract.

In 2024, Dialight's claims of fraudulent inducement against its former contractor were allowed to proceed to trial after a New York court denied Sanmina's attempts to dismiss these allegations.

Operations
The company has three divisions:
 Signals and Illumination (traffic and rail signals as well as obstruction lights)
 Solid state lights (low-energy lighting technology)
Optoelectronics

References

External links
 Official site

British companies established in 1938
Electronics companies of the United Kingdom
Sanand Plant (Tata Motors). Sanand Plant is a passenger vehicles manufacturing facility located in Chharodi village of Sanand taluka in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat, India; owned and operated by Tata Motors. It is also their newest car manufacturing facility and manufactures popular hatchbacks like Tata Tiago and Tata Tigor. Initially it was started to manufacture the Tata Nano, but now it manufactures other hatchbacks like Tata Tiago and Tata Tigor. The plant reached 100% capacity utilization in 2018. Tata Motors rolled out the 3,00,000th Tiago manufactured at Sanand plant in 2020. The 1 Millionth car manufactured at this facility was rolled out in March 2024.

The manufacturing plant is spread over 1100 acres. It started as a single model plant in 2010 for manufacturing only the Tata Nano, and has gradually emerged to produce multiple models with a flexible assembly line. Today, the plant manufactures popular Tiago & Tigor models.

This plant played an important role in the development of the automobile industry in the state of Gujarat. After Tata Motors invested in Sanand, multiple automobile manufacturing plants have come up in Gujarat - Suzuki Motor Gujarat, Ford India, MG Motor India, Hero MotoCorp, Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, etc.

Tata Electric Mobility is planning to acquire a second plant in Sanand from Ford motors as the current Sanand plant has reached 100% capacity.

About
Built in a record time of 14 months starting November 2008, the integrated facility comprises Tata Motors’ own plant, spread over 725 acres, and an adjacent vendor park, spread over 375 acres, to house key component manufacturers for the Tata Nano. Luring the plant "to Gujarat had been a coup for [then-Chief Minister Narendra] Modi," that according to Robert D. Kaplan in his book Monsoon (p. 110)

Tata Motors’ plant for the Tata Nano at Sanand, located in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat. The initially advertised capacity of the plant, in 2008, was 250,000 cars per year. In the ten years that followed, less than 300,000 in total of the Tata Nano were produced. Later, the plant was utilized to manufacture popular hatchbacks like Tata Tiago and Tata Tigor, and reached 100% capacity utilization in 2018. The plant has evolved from manufacturing a single model (Nano)  to a multi-model flexible plant producing 21 variants with 150 vehicle combinations. It was awarded the CII’s GreenCo Platinum Certification for being a zero discharge plant with systematic hazardous waste disposal process. The plant also sources more than 30-35% of its total energy consumption from renewable sources (Solar + Wind). Tata Motors rolled out the 3,00,000th Tiago from its Sanand plant in September 2020.

Land
The 1100 acres of land which was allotted to Tata Motors falls in the villages of Khoda and Bol in Sanand Taluka. Tata Motors paid Rs 900/sqm (US$81,000 per acre) to the Gujarat Government for the land in Sanand.

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Industrial buildings completed in 2010
Buildings and structures in Gujarat
Motor vehicle assembly plants in India
Tata Motors
Economy of Gujarat
2010 establishments in Gujarat
Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway. The Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway  of Texas came into existence on October 7, 1902, originally chartered to build a railroad from Johnson County to the Beaumont area near the Gulf coast. It took its name from the Trinity and Brazos rivers. It was commonly known as the “Boll Weevil," though it referred to itself as the "Valley Road."

The first line opened between Hillsboro and Mexia in October 1903. It was extended north to Cleburne in January 1904, making a total of 78 miles of track between Cleburne and Mexia.

Financial problems in the system led to its purchase by Colorado and Southern Railway (C&S) on August 1, 1905. Benjamin F. Yoakum, a railroad executive who was a director of the C&S, was contracted to build more track in Trinity and Brazos Valley system. As part of the construction deal, C&S sold one-half of the securities issued for the project to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway (CRIP), making the T&BV half-owned by both CRIP and C&S parent Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.

A southern extension of 224 miles from Mexia to Houston was built from 1905-1907. An extension was also completed between Teague and Waxahachie in 1907. T&BV contracted with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT) between Waxahachie and Dallas, while it used Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway (GC&SF) tracks on its northwestern end between Cleburne and Fort Worth and on its southeastern end between Houston and Galveston. In Houston, T&BV took a one-quarter interest in the Houston Belt and Terminal Railway, which was being built by Yoakum at the time.

The Trinity and Brazos Valley was placed into receivership on June 16, 1914, having been unprofitable since 1905. Its trackage rights with MKT and GC&SF were canceled at that time. The receiver appointed was John W. Robins, replaced by L.H. Atwell and then John A. Hulen in 1919.

In 1930, the business was reorganized as the Burlington-Rock Island Railroad Company with Hulen as the first president. Operating 303 miles of track at that time, BRI was still owned by CRIP and C&S.

Today, the trackage from Teague to Houston is still in use as part of BNSF Railway. The portion from Teague to Cleburne has been abandoned.

Financial information
The capital stock to begin the railroad was $300,000. In 1916, it reported earnings of over $1 million ($842,000 in freight and the rest in passenger). By 1926, it owned 37 locomotives and freight earnings had climbed to $2.6 million, with passenger earnings down 15 percent from 1916 levels.

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Defunct Texas railroads
Former Class I railroads in the United States
Predecessors of the Burlington Northern Railroad
Predecessors of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Predecessors of the Colorado and Southern Railway
Railway companies established in 1902
Railway companies disestablished in 1930
SkyReach BushCat. The SkyReach BushCat is a South African light-sport aircraft developed from the Rainbow Aircraft Cheetah by Vladimir Chechin of SkyReach Aircraft. The aircraft is supplied as a kit for amateur construction or as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design
The BushCat is a two-place side-by-side configuration, strut-braced, high-wing monoplane. The main upgrades from the earlier Cheetah XLS are the use of sprung aluminum landing gear, cockpit ergonomic changes to the location of the stick and throttle and hydraulic disc brakes in place of mechanical drum brakes.

The BushCat's structure is fabric-covered aluminum tube construction. The standard engines used are the  Rotax 912UL and the  Rotax 912ULS powerplants. The plane features dual throttles, a single center-mounted control stick and flaps controlled by a ceiling-mounted bar. Landing gear options are tricycle gear, conventional landing gear and floats.

The design is a US Federal Aviation Administration accepted special light-sport aircraft with the Rotax 912UL, Rotax 912ULS, the  Jabiru 2200 and  Rotax 582 engines fitted.

Operational history
In April 2018 there were 26 BushCats registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Specifications (BushCat)

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References

External links

Light-sport aircraft
Rainbow Cheetah XLS. The Rainbow Cheetah XLS is a light sport aircraft developed from the Rainbow Aircraft Cheetah

Design
The Cheetah XLS is a two-place side-by-side strut braced high-wing monoplane with tricycle landing gear. The fuselage is constructed of aluminum tubing with fabric covering. The aircraft is configured for a Rotax 582, Rotax 912UL, Rotax 912ULS, or Jabiru 2200 engine installation.

Specifications (Cheetah XLS)

See also

References

Light-sport aircraft
Certified broadcast networking engineer. Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer (CBNE) is a title granted to an individual that passes the exam requirements of the certification. The certification is regulated by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and shows competence in computer network equipment and their specialized applications in radio and television broadcast stations. The CBNE title is protected by copyright laws. Individuals who use the title without consent from the Society of Broadcast Engineers could face legal action.

The SBE certifications were created to recognize individuals who practice in career fields which are not regulated by state licensing or Professional Engineering programs.

External links 
 Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer (CBNE) Requirements & Application
 SBE Official Website

See also 
List of post-nominal letters

Broadcast engineering
Professional certification in engineering
Zlin Savage. The Zlin Savage is a series of light sport aircraft similar in construction to the Piper Cub manufactured by the Zlin Aircraft Company of Zlín, Czech Republic.

Design and development
The Zlin Savage series are strut-braced, high-wing aircraft with conventional landing gear. The fuselage is constructed with welded steel tubing. The wings are constructed with aluminum spars and wing ribs with aircraft fabric covering. Fuel is stored in two wing root tanks. The control surfaces use aluminum skins.

The design is an accepted Federal Aviation Administration special light-sport aircraft under the marketing names of Savage, Classic, Cruiser, Cub, iCub, Cub S, Bobber, Nomad and Outback.

Variants
Savage Classic
Base model for the US light-sport aircraft category. Engines are the  Rotax 912UL, the  Rotax 912ULS,  Jabiru 2200 or the  Rotax 914 turbocharged four-stroke aircraft engine.
Savage Cruiser
Modified windshield, windows, fuselage bottom.

Savage Cub
Zlin Savage modified with Piper Super Cub appearance and features, with optional tundra tires.

Savage Bobber
A Savage Cub with an uncovered open-frame fuselage designed to comply with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale microlight rules including a maximum gross weight of . The baggage compartment is a fabric or leather bag strapped to the airframe.
Savage Cub S
Extended fuselage and larger tail surfaces. Multiple engine installations from . The  Titan Stroker IO-340 powerplant was introduced in 2013.

Specifications (Zlin Savage)

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Light-sport aircraft
Savage
Single-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
AutoGyro Cavalon. The Autogyro Cavalon is a German autogyro, designed and produced by AutoGyro GmbH of Hildesheim. It was introduced at the 2011 Aero show in Friedrichshafen. The aircraft is supplied as a complete ready-to-fly-aircraft.

Design and development
The Cavalon is a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration development of the tandem-seating AutoGyro Calidus. It features a single main rotor, an enclosed cockpit with a complete aerodynamic cockpit fairing, tricycle landing gear with wheel pants and a four-cylinder, air and liquid-cooled, four-stroke, dual-ignition  Rotax 912 engine or turbocharged  Rotax 914 or  Rotax 915iS engine in pusher configuration.

The aircraft fuselage is made from composites and is a faired teardrop shape to ensure smooth airflow over the variable pitch pusher propeller. Its  diameter rotor has a chord of . The aircraft has a gross weight of . The design incorporates vibration dampers that greatly reduce the level of main rotor vibration transmitted to the cockpit.

The design was developed into the AutoGyro eCavalon electric aircraft in 2013.

Operational history
By October 2019, 50 examples had been registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration, all of them in the Experimental - Amateur-built category.

Gendarmerie General Command of Turkey uses a total of 9 units.

Specifications (Cavalon)

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2010s German sport aircraft
Single-engined pusher autogyros
AutoGyro GmbH aircraft
Materials Chemistry and Physics. Materials Chemistry and Physics (including Materials Science Communications) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published 18 times per year by Elsevier. The focus of the journal is interrelationships among structure, properties, processing and performance of materials. It covers conventional and advanced materials. Publishing formats are short communications, full-length papers and feature articles. The editor-in-chief is Jenq-Gong Duh (National Tsing Hua University).

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 4.6, ranking it 57th out of 423 in the category of Condensed Matter Physics.

Abstracting and indexing 
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Materials science journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1983
Elsevier academic journals
SM U-116. SM U-116 was a German Type 115 U-boat of the Imperial German Navy built at Schichau-Werke, Danzig. As her sister ship , she was never completed and ultimately broken up in Danzig after the Armistice with Germany.  Her main engines were used in M/S Adolf Sommerfeld ex . Both boats had been offered to the IGN free of charge by Schichau in an attempt to gain experience in building submarines (Williamson, 15).

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Notes

Citations

Bibliography

Gordon Williamson, U-boats of the Kaiser's Navy. Osprey, 2002, 
R.H. Gibson, Maurice Prendergast, The German Submarine War 1914–1918, Periscope Publishing Ltd., 2002, , p. 114
Eberhard Rössler, The U-boat: the evolution and technical history of German submarines, Naval Institute Press, 1981, , p. 56
Stefan Lipsky, Florian Lipsky, Deutsche U-Boote: hundert Jahre Technik und Entwicklung, Mittler, 2006, , p. 85

World War I submarines of Germany
Ships built in Elbing
Type U 115 submarines
Ships built by Schichau
1918 ships
Richardson (1919 cyclecar). For the pre World war I British Richardson cyclecar made in Lincolnshire see Richardson (1903 cyclecar).

The Richardson was a British  cyclecar manufactured by C. E. Richardson of Finbat Works, Aizlewood Road, Sheffield, between 1919 and 1921. 

Before World War I Richardsons had made children's toys and scooters and were pioneer makers of model aircraft. During the war they had switched production to munitions. With peace it was decided to branch out into cyclecar manufacture and a car was designed by Albert Clarke, the brother-in-law of Charles Richardson.

The car was powered by a V-twin, air-cooled engine with a choice of 980 cc JAP or 1090 cc Precision types. Both power units drove through a friction drive and belt to the rear axle. Later models used a chain drive.

Early cars had an acutely sloped dummy radiator, but this changed to a more stylish vertical design in 1921.

It is thought that around 500 cars were made before production stopped in 1921.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

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Defunct companies based in Sheffield
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Cyclecars
Cars introduced in 1919
Thomas Kershaw. Thomas Kershaw (1819–1898) was a leading British pioneer of marbleising, the creation of imitation marble finishes.

He was born in Standish, Lancashire. From the age of 12, he served as an apprentice in Bolton to John Platt, a painter and decorator. During his nine-year apprenticeship, he bought graining tools with money earned from painting pictures and developed his skills in the art of wood graining. After completing his apprenticeship, he moved firstly to Manchester, then to York, and finally to London in 1845. There he was employed by William Cubitt and Company, becoming their leading wood grainer.

In the mid-1840s, Kershaw left Cubitts to be independent and exhibited his imitation marble panels at the Great Exhibition of 1851, which won him a prize. At the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1855, he won a gold medal but felt obliged to carry out public demonstrations of his craft in the exhibition hall after accusations that he was using some type of fraudulent transfer technique. On his return, he bought a house on Baker Street and set up his own specialist decorating company.

The Journal de Manuell de Painteurers published on Kershaw in September 1855: "We regret that our inferiority to the Englishman is incontestable, and have to acknowledge that his panels must be regarded as masterpieces".

Kershaw was given several lucrative contracts, including one from the royal family to marbleise the columns at Buckingham Palace and Osborne House, but turned down a request from the Russian Ambassador to marbleise the interior of the Imperial Palace in St Petersburg. In 1862 he won another gold medal at the London Exhibition and was elected a liveryman in the Painter-Stainers Company for thirty-eight years. In 1860 he was granted the Freedom of the City of London.

He died a wealthy man in 1898, leaving £158,267 to his beneficiaries, which is around . He married Mary Atkinson in 1845 in Wigan, and they had four daughters.

Work
Emperor's Room, Buckingham Palace (1858)
Baron de Rothchild's mansion
Great Western Hotel, Paddington, London
Dorchester House, Park Lane, London (demolished, 1929)
Manley Hall, Manchester (demolished, 1905)

Examples of his work are on show in Bolton Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

External links

  A set of five faux-marble painted panels by Thomas Kershaw in the Victoria and Albert Museum

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1819 births
1898 deaths
People from Standish, Greater Manchester
Faux painting
Decorative arts
Surface decorative techniques in woodworking
Showa Aircraft Industry. is a Japanese company. Its headquarters are at Akishima-shi, Tokyo Prefecture, a region of Tokyo Metropolis. It was established in 1937 as a manufacturer of military aircraft in Akishima-shi. In World War II it was one of two companies manufacturing the Showa/Nakajima L2D, a license-built Douglas DC-3 variant. It also manufactured other military aircraft.

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Aircraft manufacturers of Japan
Mitsui
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Japanese companies established in 1937
Manufacturing companies established in 1937
FlowTex. The FlowTex Technology GmbH & Co. KG, located in Ettlingen, Baden, was a company that engaged in fraudulent activity involving horizontal drilling machines for laying underground pipelines. Between 1994 and 1999, almost 4.2 billion Deutsche Marks in damages were incurred. According to widespread estimates, this was the largest case of white-collar crime in German history up to that point.

During the investigation, 55 searches were conducted, and 123 proceedings were initiated against 110 suspects. The four main perpetrators received a total of 58 years in prison, and two FDP state ministers lost their positions. The prosecution calculated the damage at 4.9 billion DM (adjusted for purchasing power, roughly 3.7 billion EUR today), including approximately 0.7 billion DM that would have been deposited into the company's account for the FlowTex bond issued by Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, three days after the arrest of the main perpetrator, Manfred Schmider.

Scandal

What started as a legal business with a viable model soon turned into large-scale fraud; in reality, FlowTex had only produced 181 machines that were sold multiple times, with the certificates and identification plates manipulated according to the scam. At one point, the same machine was paraded at various different fake construction sites to potential investors during the same inspection; it later emerged that they had moved the machine from one location to another during lunch breaks. Over a period of ten years or so, they secured loans worth more than two billion Euros for non-existent drilling systems and the scam is widely tipped as Germany’s largest ever prosecuted case of white-collar crime.

Sentencing and aftermath

The scam was aided by a network of co-conspirators that included family, friends and employees of the firm, but ultimately it was Schmider and Kleiser who paid the largest price for their crimes; they were both arrested in February 2000 on suspicion of fraud and tax evasion, four years after the authorities were allegedly first tipped off about the fraudulent business practices. This apparent lack of determination to follow up on the leads was allegedly partly due to concerns that such investigations would jeopardise jobs and compromise leading politicians who had courted the FlowTex directors as model businessmen. Also suspicious was the fact that the tax inspector assigned to FlowTex was a tennis partner of one of the FlowTex directors. However, to date there have been no indications that the FlowTex management or any politicians tried to directly influence the proceedings.

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Financial scandals
Scandals in Germany
Defunct manufacturing companies of Germany
Drilling technology