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Sinclair C5 (1985) Production 17000
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The Sinclair Research C5 is a battery electric vehicle invented by Sir Clive Sinclair and launched by Sinclair Vehicles Ltd in the United Kingdom on 10 January 1985
Sir Clive began developement in the 1970's with work on the eletric motor by Chris Curry but the project was shelved as the company concentrated on electronic calculators.
The project was looked at again from 1979 and a change of legistlation in 1983 made the idea a lot more vible and it became a serious project.
As developement cost spiralled Sir Clive sold £12 million of stock in Sinclair Research, to found Sinclair vehicles, Lotus were commissioned to bring on the developement and Hoover at Methyr Tidfil were commissioned to produce the vehicles with the elcric motor coming from Polymer, Italy amid claims that it was to be powered by a washing machine motor.
But the buying public were sceptical, with fears that such a low vehicle was inherently unsafe in traffic, its lack of weather protection and slow speeds for a road vehicle (15 mph)
It was put on sale in 1985 for £399 plus £29 for delivery, it became an object of media and popular ridicule during 1980s Britain and was a commercial disaster, selling only around 17,000 units. Sinclair claimed it remained "the best selling electric vehicle" as recently as 2010, though it had been overtaken by 2011 when the Nissan Leaf had sold over 20,000 units.
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Clive Sinclair was an innovative producer of electronic goods and in the early 1980s he announced a range of electric cars. The first product was called the C5 and was launched in 1985. In fact it was a battery powered tricycle, driven by a 12-volt lead acid battery.
Hoover were contracted to produce the vehicle, incorporating a plastic body, with Sinclair providing the design and marketing. Hoover also provided customer service facilities. The law at that time would have allowed anyone over 14 years of age to drive it, and it required no road tax or M.o.T. A whole range of accessories were envisaged, including special rainwear and a rear mounted pole to improve visibility to other road users. The vehicle was sold through mail order and through outlets such as Eastern Electricity Board shops. It was priced at £399 plus £29 packing and delivery.
The public were unimpressed and few were sold. Thus the Sinclair range came to an abrupt halt. Presented to the Museum by Eastern Electricity in 1995
Dutch translation (1955) by Johanna E. Kuiper of "Oil", Upton Sinclair's 1927 book on which the film There Will Be Blood is based, starring Oscar-winner Daniel-Day Lewis. No information about the designer of this dramatic book cover. Impressive cover photo, by the way....
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Christina Julien and Christine Sinclair goal celebration
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Christine Sinclair v Carol Sánchez
File name: 06_10_013844a
Title: Sinclair Refining Company, Coffeyville, Kansas
Created/Published: Pub. by Plattner Dist. Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subject: Industrial facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
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19 June 2013 - Paderborn, Germany
Christine Sinclair sneaks through the German defence
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Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 mini car, introduced in 1985 never became established as personal transport for the able bodied but his concept of a small electrically powered vehicle for one person gave rise to the mobility scooter for the disabled. The Riverside Museum displays include a C5 and an early mobility scooter. In connection with the vintage vehicle event on 22nd June 2014, members of the public had the opportunity of trying out a still operational C5.
This house was on tour for the North Attleboro Historical House Tour 2011. It is located in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. It was built in 1907 as a duplex for John Sinclair.
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Sinclair's was once one of Belfast's most prestigious department stores. The first part of the store on Royal Avenue was built in 1926 in the classical style faced with a yellowish terracotta.
As a consequence of the troubles, the department store closed and on 1 September 1972 and the building was sold off to a Japanese company for just £60,000. Today it is occupied by a cafe, with office space above. The building is listed Grade B+, the equivalent to Grade II* listed status in Britain.
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Diana Sáenz v Christine Sinclair
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27 April 2015 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Christine Sinclair
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Canada v Mexico
24 November 2013, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
BC Place
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Christine Sinclair
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15 June 2015 - Montréal, QC, Canada
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Stefanie van der Gragt v Christine Sinclair
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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe was the home of the Sinclair family, Earls of Caithness.
Girnigoe Castle was built around the late 14th to early 15th centuries on a rocky promontory, and was defended on the landward side by great ditches, spanned by drawbridges. The main feature of this castle is a three or four storey tower house, probably completed towards the end of the 16th century although there are the remains of 15th century buildings beneath it. During a period of redevelopment at the castle in the early 17th century, George Sinclair (4th Earl) obtained an Act of Parliament to change the name from Castle Girnigoe to Castle Sinclair. However it appears that the two names became associated with different parts of the castle leading to the impression that there were two castles on the site.
The Campbells of Glenorchy briefly occupied the castle after emerging victorious from a battle with the Sinclairs. In 1680, George Sinclair of Keiss, who later became the 7th Earl, removed the Cambells by force, partially destroying the castle in the process.
From "swords to plowshares," following the Revolutionary war, the Founding Fathers took up farming with advice from British mentors like Sir John Sinclair, a Scotsman, Founder and President of the English Board of Agriculture and author of several books on the subject. The English Board maintained relations with 7 leaders in the newly independent United States: John Jay, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Rufus King, Dr. Enoch Edwards, and William West -- these men were all made honorary members and exchanged letters with Sinclair and other gentlemen on the Board from 1793 - 1819, despite the many fluctuations of diplomatic relations between the 2 sometimes adversarial countries.
Following his negotiation of "Jay's Treaty" in November 1794, the ratification of which was pressed by George Washington himself, Jay returned to America; he brought back with him, and personally delivered, many agricultural books and letters from Sinclair and other English authors to his colleagues(one of these included a document for Washington from Archibald Cochrane, the ninth Earl of Dundonald, today considered a founder of Britain's chemical revolution - it was a treatise on the connection between Agriculture and Chemistry - these books are in the Boston Atheneum's collection.)
On July 10, 1795, Washington wrote to John Sinclair to "extend my sincere thanks for the views of agriculture in the different counties of Great Britain, which you have had the goodness to send me - and for the Diploma (received by the hands of Mr. Jay) admitting me a foreign honorary member of the board of agriculture."
Jay's personal correspondence with Sinclair included a letter dated November 7, 1797 where Jay expressed thanks for lessons shared. Jay describes his family's soil in Rye as "rich, being a black mould, on a strong loam, with clay under it & manured every year with Dung from the barn yard." In fact, contrary to the prevalent wisdom of crop rotation, one field in particular at the Jays' Rye farm was regularly planted with potatoes year after year, except during the Revolution years of 1776 - 1783, and it still yielded consistently good results.
But eschewing complacency, Jay decided to see if he could improve on success and proudly detailed his own experiment to Sinclair: "Last year I planted a small piece of ground (not rich, stiff and inclined to bake)...and the fact was, that the Rows where the Dung was placed over & upon the seed Potatoes yielded more than the Rows where the Dung was placed under them." John Jay owned or had studied many of these British books himself and undoubtedly thought the reasoning in chapters on "various modes of improving land " and "improved system of summer fallows" were worth consideration in the colonies, including Rye, New York.
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Roger Pecina's very nicely restored service station features actual vintage artifacts, not reproductions. It has everything but Gomer and Goober! www.cassopolisvigilant.com/2012/02/01/sinclair-station-%E...