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Carmichael (manufacturer)
Carmichael, acquired by Simon Carmichael International Group Ltd., now known as SIG, is a British manufacturer of specialist fire-fighting vehicles in Worcester, member of Guangdong Yongqiang Auld Lang Real International Fire Fighting Vehicles Ltd.
History
It was formed in 1849 as a coachbuilders.
Fire service vehicles
Carmichael & Sons made its first fire engines in 1947 for the Worcester Fire Brigade (now part of the Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service).
In 1962 it made its first fire tender for airfields (airport crash tender).
Ownership
In the 1970s it was known as Carmichael Fire & Bulk Ltd.
In 1992 it became Carmichael International Ltd (CIL) and was liquidated in 2004.,
AMDAC Carmichael Ltd (ACL) bought all assets of CIL and continued all operations with the UK. ACL went into Liquidation in 2016.
Carmichael Support Services Ltd bought all assets of ACL and continue to trade, manufacture and support fire and rescue vehicles at the former ACL Facility in Worcester UK. Carmic
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Biography
Ian Carmichael’s first love of music came when he first heard the Battlefield Band and the Bothy Band in the 70s and was instantly hooked on the sound of fiddles and pipes. He duly asked to have a fiddle at school, however, was given a French horn! Needless to say after a while that instrument was handed back and a few barren years passed. That probably would have been the end of his musical journey had it not been for the film Bonnie and Clyde and the playing of Earl Scruggs on the sound track.
“It is only now after some years of developing a style of backing traditional music that I have found that the 5-string can be equally at home on the melodies if the natural flow of the instrument is allowed to come through.” — Ian
So the journey began… Living in the Highlands of Scotland presented problems in finding musicians to impress on him the techniques. Luckily, Inverness did have a music shop that sold a banjo, finger picks, two books and most importantly, records by Earl Scruggs. Other records followed — those of Bill Monroe, Don Reno, Alan Shelton, Bill Keith
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CARMICHAEL, JAMES WILLIAM, businessman and politician; b. 16 Dec. 1819 in New Glasgow, N.S., elder of the two sons of James Carmichael* and Christian McKenzie; m. 5 June 1851 Maria Jane McColl (d. 1874) in Guysborough, N.S., and they had one son and five daughters; d. 1 May 1903 in New Glasgow.
The son of the founder of New Glasgow, James William Carmichael attended Pictou Academy [see Thomas McCulloch*], and then became a clerk in his father’s store and “occasionally went as supercargo” on his vessels. He gradually took over his father’s mercantile and shipping businesses in the early 1850s, and by 1854 the firm was known as J. W. Carmichael and Company. Carmichael’s brother, John Robert, became a partner sometime afterwards, but left in 1863. George Rogers McKenzie*, Carmichael’s maternal uncle and a prominent New Glasgow shipbuilder and ship’s captain, had a loose business association with Carmichael and his father and constructed some of his vessels in their yard. The relationship between McKenzie and Carmichael, who later acquired
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