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Encyclopedia > Lloyd

Lloyd may refer to:

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People

The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh word llwyd or clwyd, which means grey or brown. (Llwyd is also used as a personal name. ... For other uses, see Lloyd. ... Lloyd Harlin Polite Jr. ... A singer is a musician who uses their voice to produce music. ...

Things

The Lloyd Rifle was the 1950s brainchild of English deer-stalker, rifleman, metallurgist and engineer David Llewellyn Lloyd (d. ...

Institutions

  • Named after the coffeehouse of Edward Lloyd in London:
    • Lloyd's of London, insurance market
    • Lloyd's List, journal on shipping
    • Lloyd's Register, ship classification and risk management organisation
      • Lloyd's Register Rail, railway classification and testing
      • Lloyd's Register Stoomwezen Dutch NoBo (notified body) for pressure vessels
      • Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance, classification of quality assurance systems
      • Lloyd’s Register - Fairplay, maritime information publisher
  • Delta Lloyd, a Dutch insurance company
  • Hapag-Lloyd, a German transportation company
  • Lloyd Aereo Boliviano, Bolivian commercial airline
  • Lloyd cars, a former British automobile brand
  • Lloyd (car), a former German automobile brand from the Borgward group of Bremen
  • Lloyd Motor Engineering Co. Ltd., a former British motorbike manufacturer (W.A. Lloyd, Cycle Fittings, Clyde Works, later Lloyd Motor Engineering Co. Ltd., Birmingham (1907-1923))
  • Lloyd Motoren-Werk, another motorbike manufacturer in Germany: Ottmar Cramer, Nürnberg (1923-1926)
  • Lloyd Wise, a group of intellectual property attorney firms based in England and Asia
  • Lloyds Bank, a former British bank
  • Lloyds TSB Group plc, a British financial institution
  • Lloyd's Agency Network, a worldwide network of shipping agents
  • Lloyd's Standard Form of Salvage Agreement, the standard "No Cure No Pay" contract for salvaging
  • Nedlloyd, a Dutch shipping company
  • Pester Lloyd, a Hungarian newspaper (in German)
  • Lloyd's (hardware store), an Australian hardware store chain taken over by Bunnings in the mid nineties.

Edward Lloyd (d. ... It has been suggested that Council of Lloyds be merged into this article or section. ... Lloyds List is one of the worlds oldest continuously-running journals, having printed shipping news in London at least as early as 1741. ... The Lloyds Register Group is an independent risk management organisation providing risk assessment and risk mitigation solutions and management systems certification. ... Steel Pressure Vessel A pressure vessel is a closed, rigid container designed to hold gases or liquids at a pressure different from the ambient pressure. ... Hapag-Lloyd is a German transportation company comprising a cargo container shipping line and a cruise line. ... LAB Boeing 727-200 (CP-1366) at Cochabamba Airport Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano (LAB Airlines) was the national and international passenger airline of Bolivia, based in Cochabamba. ... Lloyd cars was a British motor manufacturer, founded by Richard Lloyd, based in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England between 1936 and 1951. ... Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren GmbH was a German brand created in 1908 and was owned by the Norddeutsche Lloyd shipping company. ... Lloyds TSB Group plc is a group of financial services companies, based in the United Kingdom, with the registered office in Edinburgh, Scotland. ... Lloyds TSB Group plc is a group of financial services companies, based in the United Kingdom, which was created in 1995 following the merger of the TSB Group and the Lloyds Bank Group. ... Bunnings Warehouse is the southern hemispheres largest hardware chain store, with more than 249 stores all over Australia and New Zealand. ...

Geographic locations

Lloyd is a town located in Ulster County, New York. ... Lloydminster is a Canadian city which has the unusual geographic distinction of straddling a provincial border. ...

Fictional characters


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Lloyd's of London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2295 words)
While Lloyd was only the proprietor of the coffeehouse, his establishment was a popular place for sailors, merchants, and shipowners and Lloyd catered to them with reliable shipping news and a variety of services.
Lloyd's response was to commission a secret internal inquiry, known as the Cromer Report, which reported in 1968.
The Lloyd's Act of 1982 further redefined the structure of the business, and was designed to give the 'external Names', introduced in response to the Cromer Report, a say in the running of the business through a new governing Council.
Encyclopedia4U - David Lloyd George - Encyclopedia Article (1221 words)
David Lloyd George (January 17, 1863 - March 26, 1945) was a British statesman and the last Liberal Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Although born in Manchester in 1863, David Lloyd George was a Welsh-speaking Welshman, the only Welshman ever to hold the office of Prime Minister in the British government.
Lloyd George began to feel the weight of the coalition with the Conservatives after the war.
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