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Vectis may refer to: Places * Vectis, the ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight Organisations * Vectis Bus Company, the forerunner of present day Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, set up in the early 1920s. * Vectis postal service, a postal service set up to serve the Isle of Wight during the postal strikes of 1971. * The Vectis National Party, a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the early 1970s. * The Vectis Tigers, an English ice hockey team on the Isle of Wight founded in 2007, now known as the Wightlink Tigers. * Vectis Radio, a radio station launched in 2010 by former Isle of Wight Radio DJ Ian Mac. Other uses * The Vectis Formation, an Early Cretaceous fossil-bearing geological formation on the Isle of Wight * , a name used more than once by the British Royal Navy * Calipt'Air Vectis, a Swiss paraglider design * Vectis forceps (Single bladed Caesarean forceps) * Minolta Vectis S series The Minolta Vectis S-series comprises two Advanced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Wight
The Isle of Wight (Help:IPA/English, /waɪt/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''WYTE'') is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and Skerry, skerries, is also a ceremonial county. The county is bordered by Hampshire across the Solent strait to the north, and is otherwise surrounded by the English Channel. Its largest settlement is Ryde, and the administrative centre is Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport. Wight has a land area of and had a population of 140,794 in 2022, making it the List of islands of England#Largest islands, largest and List of islands of England#Most populous islands, second-most populous English island. The island is largely rural, with the largest settlements primarily on the coast. These include Ryde in the north-east, Shanklin and Sandown in the south-east, and the large villages of Totland and Freshwater, Isle of Wight, Freshwater in the west. Newport is located inland at the point at which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Vectis
Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, founded in 1921 as Dodson and Campbell. It became the Vectis Bus Company in 1923. The company was purchased by Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969. In 1987, the company was re-privatised, and in July 2005, it became a subsidiary of Go-Ahead Group. History 1921–1928 In 1921 in Cowes, the company was founded as Dodson & Campbell. In 1923, it was renamed the Vectis Bus Company. Vectis was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight. The buses were built by the London bus body builder, Christopher Dodson. 1929–1985 In 1929, the company was purchased by Southern Railway and incorporated as the Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited.Companies House extract company no 241973 The Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Limited I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vectis Postal Service
The Vectis postal service was a postal service set up during the 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, national postal strike of the United Kingdom in 1971. This was amongst a number of local delivery services which flourished during the strike. The service was set up by a group of Ryde business men, led by R. W. Cawdell, C.C., who acted as head postmaster for the service. It covered an area encompassing the whole of the Isle of Wight. At peak the service handled over 1500 items of mail daily. The national postal strike ended on 8 March 1971, and with it the local service. Stamps An initial set of stamps with a face value of 5p or 1/- in white and blue were issued imperforate on 22 January and sheets of 48 on 23 January. A First Day Cover was also issued on the same day. A further printing in green was issued on 16 February 1971. During the time the service was in operation decimal currency was introduced across the UK on 15 February. References {{Reflist History of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vectis National Party
The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1967,Adam Grydehøj and Philip Hayward"Autonomy Initiatives and Quintessential Englishness on the Isle of Wight" Island Studies Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2011, p.185 the party sought Crown dependency status for the Isle of Wight, on a similar model to certain other islands including the Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern .... They were motivated by a belief that the sale of the Isle of Wight to the English crown in 1293 was unconstitutional. The party contested the Isle of Wight constituency in the 1970 general election when candidate R. W. J. Cawdell, a councillor for Ryde, polled 1,607 votes (2.8% of the Wight vote). The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wightlink Tigers
The Wightlink Tigers was an amateur English ice hockey team from the Isle of Wight. The team was founded in July 2007 as the Vectis Tigers, and played at Ryde Arena, Isle of Wight. From the 2009–10 season onwards the team played as the Wightlink Tigers, after sponsors Wightlink. In its last competitive season (2015–16) the Tigers played in Division 2 of the National Ice Hockey League The National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) is a set of semi-professional ice hockey leagues administered by the English Ice Hockey Association. It is currently the second tier of British ice hockey, below the Elite Ice Hockey League. Formerly calle ... (NIHL) Southern Conference (SC). Many of the team's roster moved to the newly formed Wightlink Buccaneers, which debuted in the 2016–17 season in NIHL SC Division 2. Season-by-season record ''Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against'' References External links * {{British ice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Wight Radio
Isle of Wight Radio is an Independent Local Radio station in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The station began transmitting on 1242 kHz from Briddlesford Farm AM transmitter on 15 April 1990. Isle of Wight Radio switched to FM in March 1998, its main transmitter is at Chillerton Down on 107FM, with three low power relays on 102FM in Cowes, Ventnor and Ryde. As of September 2024, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 34,000 with a listening share of 11.2%, according to RAJAR. History Ownership Isle of Wight Radio was founded by Islanders Jean-Paul Hansford and Stephen Oates. It was independently owned for two years before being purchased by GWR (now Global Radio) and then by The Local Radio Company (TLRC). The station then came under the control of a joint venture between TLRC and the Portsmouth FC, under the name of Quadrant Media Limited, which also owned Spirit FM in Chichester and 107.4 The Quay in Portsmouth Portsmouth ( ) is a port city status in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disk Jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at nightclubs or music festivals), mobile DJs (who are hired to work at public and private events such as weddings, parties, or festivals), and turntablists (who use record players, usually turntables, to manipulate sounds on phonograph records). Originally, the "disc" in "disc jockey" referred to shellac and later vinyl records, but nowadays DJ is used as an all-encompassing term to also describe persons who mix music from other recording media such as cassettes, CDs or digital audio files on a CDJ, controller, or even a laptop. DJs may adopt the title "DJ" in front of their real names, adopted pseudonyms, or stage names. DJs commonly use audio equipment that can play at least two sources of recorded music simultaneously. This enables them to blend tracks together to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vectis Formation
The Vectis Formation is a geological Formation (geology), formation on the Isle of Wight and Swanage, England whose strata were formed in the Barremian, approximately 125 million years ago."Magnetostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Vectis Formation (Wealden Group) on the Isle of Wight, Southern England." The environment of deposition was that of a freshwater coastal lagoon with occasional marine influence after the early Aptian marine transgression, transitioning from the floodplain environment of the underlying Wessex Formation. The primary lithology is of laminated grey mudstones. The Vectis Formation is composed of three geological Member (geology), members: the Shepherds Chine member, the Barnes High Sandstone member, and the Cowleaze Chine member. It is overlain by the fully marine Atherfield Clay Formation, part of the Lower Greensand Group. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calipt'Air Vectis
The Calipt'Air Vectis is a Swiss single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Calipt'Air of Spiez. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 14. Pagefast Ltd, Lancaster OK, 2003. ISSN 1368-485X Design and development The Vectis was designed as a performance intermediate and competition glider. The models are each named for their relative size. Operational history Reviewer Noel Bertrand described the Vectis in a 2003 review as the company's "top of the range wing". Variants ;Vectis S :Small-sized model for lighter pilots. Its span wing has a wing area of , 63 cells and the aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a geometry, geometric shape is the ratio of its sizes in different dimensions. For example, the aspect ratio of a rectangle is the ratio of its longer side to its shorter side—the ratio of width to height, when the rectangl ... is 5.45:1. The pilot weight range is . The glider model ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forceps In Childbirth
Obstetrical forceps are a medical instrument used in childbirth. Their use can serve as an alternative to the ventouse (vacuum extraction) method. Medical uses Forceps births, like all assisted births, should be undertaken only to help promote the health of the mother or baby. In general, a forceps birth is likely to be safer for both the mother and baby than the alternatives – either a ventouse birth or a caesarean section – although caveats such as operator skill apply. Advantages of forceps use include avoidance of caesarean section (and the short and long-term complications that accompany this), reduction of delivery time, and general applicability with cephalic presentation (head presentation). Common complications include the possibility of bruising the baby and causing more severe vaginal tears (perineal laceration) than would otherwise be the case. Severe and rare complications (occurring less frequently than 1 in 200) include nerve damage, Descemet's membrane r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
