Lanchester
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Places
- Lanchester, County DurhamLanchester, County DurhamLanchester is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, and was in the former district of Derwentside . It is to the west of the city of Durham and from the former steel town of Consett, and has a population of slightly over 4,000 people.Although there was a small drift mine on the...
, village in England - Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry UniversityCoventry UniversityCoventry University is a post-1992 university in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Under the terms of the Further and Higher Education Act of 1992, the institution's name was changed from Coventry Polytechnic to Coventry University...
People
- Elsa LanchesterElsa LanchesterElsa Sullivan Lanchester was an English-American character actress with a long career in theatre, film and television....
(1902 - 1986), Oscar-nominated English character actress - Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
- Lanchester's lawsLanchester's lawsLanchester's laws are mathematical formulae for calculating the relative strengths of a predator/prey pair. This article is concerned with military forces....
, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
- Lanchester's laws
- John LanchesterJohn LanchesterJohn Henry Lanchester is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, at Gresham's School, Holt between 1972 and 1980 and St John's College, Oxford.-Works:...
(born 1962), British journalist and novelist.
Other uses
- Lanchester Motor CompanyLanchester Motor CompanyThe Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer based until 1930 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. It operated from 1895 to 1955....
, now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer - Lanchester 4x2 Armoured CarLanchester 4x2 Armoured CarThe Lanchester Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced during the First World War. It is not to be confused with an interwar period six-wheeled design.-History:...
- Lanchester 6x4 Armoured CarLanchester 6x4 Armoured CarLanchester Armoured Car was a British armoured car produced in limited numbers in late 1920s and early 1930s. The vehicle remained in service with the Territorial Army and colonial units until early 1940s and saw action in the Battle of Malaya...
- Lanchester submachine gun, submachine gun used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War