Lotus Cars - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Lotus Cars: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotus Cars - Formula One
Main article: Team Lotus The company encouraged its customers to race its cars, and itself entered Formula One as a team in 1958. A Lotus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Proton Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Proton Company - History
The first Proton car model, Proton Saga, rolled off the assembly line in Shah Alam in September 1985. The 100,000th Proton Saga was produ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosworth: Encyclopedia - Cosworth
Cosworth is an engine design and manufacture company founded in 1958, specialising in engines for automobile racing. The company was prev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotus: Encyclopedia - Lotus
The term lotus has a variety of uses It may refer to: Plants: The genus Lotus in the subfamily Faboideae in the family Fabaceae. The In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Proton Company: Encyclopedia Ii - Proton Company - Exports
The company first began exports to other right hand drive markets like New Zealand in the late 1980s, but it was much more successful in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ford Kent Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ford Kent Engine - Pre-crossflow
The original OHV Kent engine appeared in the 1959 Anglia with a capacity of 997cc. With a 81 mm (3.2 in) bore and 48 mm (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colin Chapman: Encyclopedia Ii - Colin Chapman - Career
In 1948 Chapman started with the Mk1, a modified Austin 7, which he entered privately into local racing events. With prize money won he d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Thatcher: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Thatcher - Personal Life
Mark Thatcher attended Harrow public school, leaving in 1971 with just three O-levels. He became an articled clerk at Touche Ross, a City...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Team Lotus: Encyclopedia Ii - Team Lotus - 1960s And 70s - Dominant Force
The first Formula 1 victory for a Lotus came at Monaco in 1960 when Stirling Moss beat the dominant Ferrari team in his privately entered...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotus Elite: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotus Elite - 1958
The first Elite was an ultra-light two-seater coupe, produced from 1957 to 1962. The Elite's Lotus Type 14 most distinctive feature was i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosworth - Engines
Cosworth - Association with Ford. Cosworth has had a long relationship with Ford, which began when Cosworth first started manufacturing...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Multi-valve: Encyclopedia Ii - Multi-valve - History
The first multivalve engine was built by Peugeot in 1912 for Grand Prix racing. The technology was also attempted by Bugatti, Bentley, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotus Europa: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotus Europa - History
The concept originated during 1963 with drawings by Ron Hickman, director of Lotus Engineering (Designer of the original Lotus Elan, as w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Irregular Plurals
There are many other less regular ways of forming plurals. While they may seem quirky, they usually stem from older forms of English or f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosworth - Corporate History
The original company was founded as a British racing engine maker, based in Northampton in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth (1933-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Team Lotus: Encyclopedia Ii - Team Lotus - 1950s - A New Presence
Colin Chapman established Lotus Engineering in 1952 at Hornsea, UK. Lotus achieved rapid success with the 1953 Mk 6, and the 1954 Mk 8, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ford Kent Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ford Kent Engine - Lotus
The Kent was also used in the Ford Classic and Ford Capri at 1340 cc. It was in this form that the Kent was noticed by Colin Chapman...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosworth - Corporate History
The original company was founded as a British racing engine maker, based in Northampton in 1958 by Mike Costin and Keith Duckworth (1933-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ford Kent Engine: Encyclopedia Ii - Ford Kent Engine - Future
The Kent engine and its successors were used as the stock engine in Formula Ford auto racing. In europe, Formula Ford switched to the Zet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Names Of Peoples
There are several different rules for this. In discussing peoples whose demonym takes -man or -woman, there are three options: pluralize ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Numbers
English, like some other languages, treats large numerals like nouns, such as in "ten soldiers" and "a hundred soldiers." This is why doz...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Almost-regular Plurals
Many nouns of Italian or Spanish origin are exceptions to the -oes rule: Many nouns ending in a voiceless fricative mutate that sound to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Regular Plurals
The plural morpheme in English is suffixed to the end of most nouns. The plural form is usually represented orthographically by adding -s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosworth: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosworth - The Cosworth F1 Car
Cosworth made an attempt at designing a full GP car in 1969. The car designed by Robin Herd used an original 4WD transmission (different ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Defective Nouns
Some nouns have no singular form. Such a noun is called a plurale tantum: annals, billiards*, measles, nuptials, thanks, tidings, victua...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Nouns With Multiple Plurals
Some nouns have two plurals, one used to refer to a number of things considered individually, the other to refer to a number of things co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Thatcher: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Thatcher - Business Life
Thatcher initially hoped to become an accountant but failed his accountancy exams three times. He was later employed in the jewellery bus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plural To Singular By Back-formation
Some words have started out with unusually formed singulars and plurals, but more "normal" singular-plural pairs have resulted by back-fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Headless Nouns
Linguist Steven Pinker, in his book, The Language Instinct discusses what he calls "headless words", typically bahuvrihis, like lowlife a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Plural: Encyclopedia Ii - English Plural - Plurals Of Symbols And Abbreviations
Symbols and abbreviations whose plural would be ambiguous if only an s were added are pluralized by adding 's. "mind your p's and q's" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mark Thatcher: Encyclopedia Ii - Mark Thatcher - Equatorial Guinea Affair
On August 25, 2004, Thatcher was arrested at 10 Dawn Avenue, his thatched-roof mansion in Constantia, a rich suburb outside Cape Town, So...   » Read the article