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Another important reason for building highways was to motorize Germany.

Alas, there was no practical way to heat or motorize it.

The factory made car and motorcycle parts just as China was starting to motorize.

During its development, the designers decided to add motors to motorize pan and tilt.

"The corporation even claimed that it was responsible for 'helping to motorize the movement.' "

The PF 126p was supposed to be the first real popular car, to motorize ordinary families.

Ferdinand manages to "motorize" the barn by modifying an old tractor engine to oars at the side of the building.

"And I motorize everything on shades and curtains," Ms. Stokes added.

In 1904, Deeds hired Kettering at NCR to motorize the cash register.

The people's car: Hitler made it his political agenda to motorize the nation, and that every German should own either a car or a tractor in the future.

As vehicles were in short supply, Feuchtinger turned to Becker, whom he had known from before the war, to generate the equipment needed to motorize his unit.

These Soviet innovations were enabled, in part, by the provision of over 220,000 trucks by the United States to motorize the Soviet infantry.

Rorty agrees to let him motorize one firehouse, but frustrates Bill by assigning him to Firehouse 12.

The Hartford Fire Department began a radical reorganization; in 1907 it began to motorize its companies and in 1908 the Department became permanently paid.

Although matters of national defense were of secondary importance to domestic concerns during these first years of the New Deal, Dern managed to enlarge and motorize the army.

Gondoliers have threatened to motorize some of their gondolas in an effort to force city officials to reduce the increasingly heavy swells caused by the motorboats that clog the waterways.

It was meant to accommodate both men and horses, reflecting a distinct era in the fire department's history when it had its own horses but had not yet begun to motorize.

The government provides subsidies to poor fishermen so that they can motorize their traditional craft to increase the range and frequency of operation, with a consequent increase in the catch and earnings.

Most enthusiasts use commercially available slot cars (often modified for better performance), others motorize static models, and some "scratch-build," creating their own mechanisms and bodies from basic parts and materials.

Special visceral motor neurons, also called branchial motor neurons, which directly innervate branchial muscles (that motorize the gills in fish and the face and neck in land vertebrates).

Great disparity of wealth means that only a fraction of the population can motorize, and therefore the highly dense multimodal transportation system for the poor is cross-cut by the highly motorized transportation system for the rich.

SS divisions were normally in better shape, with an estimated 150 tanks, a battalion of self-propelled assault guns and enough half-tracks to motorize most of its infantry and reconnaissance soldiers-and these had an authorized strength of an estimated 19,000 personnel.

In 1973, Australian Bill Bennett, who was one of the most skilled pilots of the time and the largest U.S. hang glider manufacturer, was following in Barry Palmer's footsteps and attempting to motorize a flexible hang glider.

In 1928 the United Kingdom became the first nation to begin the replacement of horse cavalry with motorized troops and by 1939 had became the first to motorize their national army, although some Yeomanry regiments plus regular cavalry units serving overseas remained mounted.

Of all the major powers, only the United Kingdom, weakened by the loss of Ireland, was in part compelled to motorize for this reason; horse stocks in Germany, the United States and the Soviet Union remained sufficient for at least their peacetime armies.

The French army did not have the means to motorise more than a few select divisions.

Most nations were economically and industrially unable to fully motorise their forces.

As Europe and Japan rebuilt from the war, their growing economies led to a steady increase in demand for cheap cars to 'motorise the masses'.

Likewise, infantry divisions of the UK and its Empire could motorise chosen subordinate units, but infantry advanced on foot in most cases.

The brigade also underwent a period of capability enhancement between 1997 and 2000 as a number of new equipment platforms were rolled out in an effort to motorise the brigade.

The bulk of German and Soviet infantry remained on foot, while U.S. infantry divisions could, if needed, redirect the activities of enough trucks to motorise an infantry regiment.

During the 1960s a cast white metal chassis kit in the Simplas range to motorise the model was made available by Wilro Models of Clarence Road, Hackney, London.

Later modifications replaced the pontoons with landing skids fashioned from automobile leaf springs, and the addition of twin McCulloch MC70 engines driving a common propeller in an unsuccessful attempt to motorise the aircraft.

The range consisted of 34 kits of individual locomotives or carriages, a model of the Ariel Arrow motorcycle, the "Fireball XL5" rocket, parts to motorise the railway kits (using a motorised box wagon supplied pre-built, or a motor bogie) and three railway presentation sets: