Bantam or Bantams may refer to: *

Bantam (poultry) A bantam is any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck. Most large chicken breeds and several breeds of duck have a bantam counterpart, which is much smaller than the standard-sized fowl, but otherwise similar in most or all respects. ...

, any small variety of fowl, usually of chicken or duck

Businesses

Bantam Books Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. ...

, an American publishing house * Bantam Cider, an American cider company *

Bantam Press Bantam Press is an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is a British publishing division of Penguin Random House. It is based on Uxbridge Road in Ealing Ealing () is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in th ...

, a British publishing imprint *

American Bantam The American Bantam Car Company was an American automobile manufacturing company incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania. American Bantam is credited with the invention of the Original Jeep in 1940. The company's founders, Roy Evans and Willia ...

, a 1935 car company, formerly American Austin Car Company

Military

Bantam (military) A bantam, in British Army usage, was a soldier of below the army's minimum regulation height of . During the First World War, the British Army raised battalions in which the normal minimum height requirement for recruits was reduced from to . ...

, a soldier shorter than 5'3" in the First World War **143rd Battalion (British Columbia Bantams), CEF **216th Battalion (Bantams), CEF * Bantam (missile), a Swedish 1950s anti-tank missile * BAT Bantam, a British 1920s biplane fighter aircraft * Northrop X-4 Bantam, an American prototype small twinjet aircraft * Douglas A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft, nicknamed Bantam Bomber

Places

* Banten (town), also written as Bantam, a port town in Java, Indonesia ** Banten Sultanate, or Bantam, 1527–1813 ** Banten, current province of Indonesia on territory of the former sultanate * Bantam, Cocos (Keeling) Islands * Bantam, Connecticut, U.S. * Bantam, Ohio, U.S. * Bantam River, Connecticut, U.S.

Sports

* Bantam, U15 age category in minor ice hockey * Bradford City A.F.C., nicknamed The Bantams, an English football club * Trinity College Bantams, the varsity and club athletic teams of Trinity College (Connecticut) * SC United Bantams, a soccer team in Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.

Transportation

* Micro Aviation B22 Bantam, a New Zealand microlight aircraft * Warwick W-3 Bantam, an American homebuilt aircraft design * Bantam (car), a 1913 British cyclecar *

, name adopted by the former American Austin Car Company in 1935 until 1956 * Ford Bantam, a South African pickup truck from 1983 * BSA Bantam, a British motorcycle 1948–1971 * HNLMS Bantam (1938), HNLMS ''Bantam'' (1938), a Dutch ship * MS Bantam (1939), MS ''Bantam'' (1939), a Dutch ship * SS Bantam (1930), SS ''Bantam'' (1930), a Dutch ship

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