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White Motor Company. The White Motor Company was an American automobile, truck, bus and agricultural tractor manufacturer from 1900 until 1980. The company also produced bicycles, roller skates, automatic lathes, and sewing machines. Before World War II, the company was based in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.
Volvo's only car assembly plant in North America. Volvo Halifax Assembly - Bayer's Lake Plant still stands and is now used as an office complex. AB Volvo. Chesapeake Plant Volvo Parkway & Greenbriar Parkway, Chesapeake, Virginia. Volvo B10M and other transit buses (Plant originally planned for cars) [61] Ground broken 1974-07-02 [62] 1986-10
The Volvo cars were quite expensive compared to their imported competitors. The PV51 was the answer to a request from Volvo’s dealers to offer a smaller and less expensive model. The rear end of the body was similar to the Carioca, but the front was new and the interior was simplified, to cut the price. The PV51 had to make do with a live ...
1963–1967 [ 2] First Volvo Car plant outside Sweden [ 3] Assembly [ 2] Canada. Third non-domestic automobile plant in North America. Debut model: Volvo Canadian [ 4] Canadian assembly shifted to Halifax Plant (1967) [ 2] Ghent Plant. Volvo Car Gent.
The Military Aviation Museum is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and houses one of the world's largest private collections of warbirds in flying condition. [1] It includes examples from Germany, France, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, from both World War I and World War II. The collection contains aircraft ranging ...
December 7, 1992. Weaver's Antique Service Station is a gas station built in c.1930, [2] which is restored and still evocative of the 1930s, located in Burlington, West Virginia on Northwestern Turnpike (also known as U.S. Route 50 ), near its intersection with Patterson Creek Road. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a ...
The 106.1 frequency was formerly a translator for WROX-FM to service signal dropouts in Downtown Norfolk. This signed on in 1995 and was turned off in 2003. [7] In April 2001, a full-powered frequency signed on the air at 106.1 as WEXM, serving the Eastern Shore of Virginia (with a city of license of Exmore), and simulcasting WKOC. [8]