T.B. was a three-wheeled cyclecar manufactured by the aircraft department of Thompson Brothers of Bilston, England, from 1919 until 1924. A prototype four-wheel car never entered production. Approximately 150 cars were produced of which only one example is believed to have survived.
History
Thompson Brothers was founded in 1810 in Bilston in the Black Country region of South Staffordshire (now the West Midlands), and in 1882 it was purchased by Enoch Stephen Thompson. The company was based at the Bradley Engineering Works, on Great Bridge Road, Bilston. Initially they manufactured steam boilers, but during World War I they diversified into aircraft components. After the war the tax regulations lead to a boom in cyclecar production so the aircraft department produced a three-wheeled, open, two seater, cycle car that followed aircraft engineering practises and workmanship standards, using high grade materials.
The main appeal of cycle-cars was cheapness to buy and run, but in the overpopulated car market of the 1920s the cost of four-wheeled cars fell to that of cycle-cars, the business tailed off, component acquisition was troublesome, and T.B. only sold 150 cars. Although they designed a four-wheeled car it was never produced.
Tâb is the Egyptian name of a running-fightboard game played in several Arab countries, or a family of similar board games played in Northern Africa and South-western Asia, from Persia to West Africa and from Turkey to Somalia, where a variant called deleb is played. The game described here was recorded by Edward William Lane in Egypt in the 1820s. A reference to "at-tâb wa-d-dukk" (likely a similar game) occurs in a poem of 1310 CE.
The tâb game is played by two players on a board, often delineated at the ground. The board is 4 squares wide, and usually an odd number of squares long, usually from 7 to 15, but formerly up to 29 squares. Numbering the four rows 1, 2, 3 and 4, from the start one player has one (nominally) white piece in each field of row 1, and the other a (nominally) black piece in each field of row 4. The pieces may be stones or made from burnt clay. In Egypt, the pieces are referred to as kelb, meaning dog.
As in the Egyptian game senet and the Korean game Yut, four sticks of a roughly semi-circular cross-section are used as dice. The flat sides are (nominally) white, and the rounded sides are (nominally) black. The value of a throw depends on the number of black and white sides showing, as indicated in the following table.
Tobă, or especially in Transylvania, "caş de cap de porc" (which means "pig head cheese"), is a kind of a traditional Romanian delicatessen which looks like a wide sausage, 4 inch diameter using usually pig's stomach, stuffed with pork jelly, liver, and skin suspended in aspic.
TammyThompson is a local filmmaker. Thompson was always drawing when she was a child ... Thompson liked to paint people and flowers ... Thompson did not get interested in photography until digital cameras came out when she was in her 30s.
Mavericks Receive ...P.J ... However, the Mavs may want to consider trading Klay Thompson instead of either Gafford or Washington if the Heat are willing to take on the former SplashBrother's salary, as he'll earn $34.1 million over the next two seasons ... .
Waiting for her in heaven include her husband, James Votava; son-in-law, Jeff Wood; grandson, SethThompson; brothers, Louie (June and Evelyn) Zavorka, Wencil Zavorka, Joe Zavorka Sr., infant Joe Zavorka Jr.
Christopher “Chris” G. Pearson, 76, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024 ... He is survived by his daughter JenniferThompson, sister ClaudiaLafrenz, brother Corey Pearson, two grandchildren, a nieces and two nephews ... Army ... .
Tahlequah Daily Press
16 Jan 2025
Tahlequah Daily Press
16 Jan 2025