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A telescopic lip (20 or 40 inches) can help to reduce the length of the leveler to 10 feet. Dock levelers (and indeed dock plates and dock boards) are used where a building has a truck-level door, i.e. a door with a floor level roughly at the same height as the floor of the truck's trailer.
The ACMAT Bastion is a modern French armoured personnel carrier, manufactured by ACMAT. The Bastion was available to customers in North America and Oceania via Mack Defense . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] As of 2021, AM General is making the Bastion.
The Concertainer was originally developed by Jimi Heselden, a British entrepreneur and ex-coal miner, who founded HESCO Bastion Ltd. in 1989 to manufacture his invention. [9] Concertainer as the brand name for the barrier is a portmanteau of the words " concertina " and " container ".
Self-leveling concrete was invented in 1952 by Axel Karlsson from Sweden. The first product was a combination of wood glue, fine sand and cement with additives. [1] It was called flytspackel, which directly translates to "floating putty". The term self-leveling can be traced back to a patent applied by the company Lafarge in 1997. [2]
Nigeria: 40+ [46] Proforce Viper Light tactical vehicle Nigeria: Proforce Hulk MRAP Nigeria: 5 [47] Otokar Cobra: Light tactical vehicle Turkey: 204 [23] Casspir: MRAP South Africa: 5 [23] Casspir III variant. Reva: MRAP South Africa: 40 [48] Mk III. [49] Plasan Sand Cat: Composite armored vehicle Israel: More units ordered Light armored ...
A surveyor's leveling instrument has a spirit level mounted on a telescope (perhaps 30 power) with cross-hairs, itself mounted on a tripod. The observer reads height values off two graduated vertical rods, one 'behind' and one 'in front', to obtain the height difference between the ground points on which the rods are resting.
The Nigerian Army traces its history to Lieutenant John Hawley Glover's Constabulary Force, which was largely composed of freed Hausa slaves in 1863. [6] The Constabulary Force was established with the primary goal of protecting the Royal Niger Company and its assets from constant military incursions by the neighboring Ashanti Empire. [7]
Dangote Cement Plc is a Nigerian publicly traded multinational cement manufacturer headquartered in Lagos.The company is engaged in the manufacture, preparation, import, packaging, and distribution of cement and related products in Nigeria, and has plants or import terminals in nine other African countries.