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20-701: Its origins stretched back to 1951, when three independent car clubs met in Kingston, Ontario to found the Canadian Auto Sport Committee (CASC). In 1951, inventor, engineer and MG race driver Marshall Smith Green came from Montreal to meet in Kingston with designer Jack Luck. Green asked Luck to design the Club's logo. The name was changed to the Canadian Automobile Sport Clubs (CASC) in 1958, when Regions across

40-787: A Command and Control system. The National Customer Service Awards' recognized the system with the 'Best Use of Technology in Customer Service' award in October 2004. Aviva acquired RAC plc for around £1.1 billion in March 2005. They sold some parts of the business for £500m, including RAC Auto Windscreens in December 2008, and BSM to a German company in January 2009. BSM was later sold to Acromas Holdings, which owns The Automobile Association . Aviva ceased providing loans under

60-486: A day to assist. The office is based near Lyon, in Villeurbanne, France. RAC Vehicle Checks and Examinations conduct vehicle checks that show if a car has been stolen, written off, has outstanding finance or previous plates, is at risk of being sold illegally, and that its number plate and chassis number correspond. RAC Vehicle Checks are conducted by Experian, while RAC Examinations Inspectors make physical checks on

80-446: A joint investigation into fatalities at Istanbul Airport - nicknamed by workers "the cemetery" as so many have died. By this point, the official death toll was 55, but unofficial estimates suggested the figure could "be higher than 400". Grimshaw was one of four architects employed on the airport's design, three of them UK-based (the other two were Scott Brownrigg and Haptic Architects). As concept architects, Grimshaw ceased working on

100-562: A number of wins, including winning the BTCC Independent Drivers Championship with Colin Turkington in 2007 , 2008 and 2009 . Turkington was also able to clinch the outright win in the 2009 BTCC Drivers Championship for Team RAC. For 2010 , RAC reduced their level of sponsorship with the team. Grimshaw Architects Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners )

120-534: A single associate of Ecclestone's, Benoit Mailloux , the president of the Federation de l’Automobile Quebec , until handed over to a new body, ASN Canada FIA , in 1990. Many of CASC's records were handed over to its Ontario Region, which re-affiliated as a territory to the new ASN, while other CASC regions were disbanded and replaced by re-formed territorial organizations. Details of the CASC history can be found in

140-460: A transaction valuing the RAC at £1.4 billion. The RAC has around 2,000 patrols that attend 2.8 million breakdowns each year, this includes overseas breakdowns with RAC Europe. The RAC covers eight million roadside assistance customers, with 2.2 million individual members and 4.5 million corporate customers. Their breakdown assistance centres operate 24/7 , and deal with approximately four millions calls

160-539: A year. They have introduced, for trial, two hybrid vehicles , to cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions. In May 2009, a survey by J.D. Power ranked the RAC highest in "satisfying roadside assistance customers" for the fourth consecutive year. RAC Europe is breakdown cover for customers from the United Kingdom that travel to Europe. RAC Europe covers forty seven European countries, and provides English speaking Incident Managers, available twenty four hours

180-631: Is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Nicholas Grimshaw , the firm was one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture . In particular, they are known for their design of transport projects including Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station , Waterloo International railway station and the award-winning Southern Cross railway station which was the recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw

200-902: Is behind the design of the Sustainability Pavilion, an innovative net-zero building, for Expo 2020 . The firm currently has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne and Sydney, employing over 600 staff. Grimshaw has 21 partners worldwide: Jolyon Brewis, Keith Brewis, Andrew Byrne, Vincent Chang, Andrew Cortese, Nicholas Grimshaw , William Horgan, Mark Husser, Michael Janeke, Ewan Jones, Annelie Kvick Thompson, Kirsten Lees , Declan McCafferty, Neill McClements, Mark Middleton, Andrew Perez, Juan Porral, Neven Sidor, Neil Stonell, Andrew Thomas, and Andrew Whalley . Major projects, by year of completion and ordered by type, are: In October 2019, UK publications Construction News and Architects' Journal published

220-609: The Canadian Grand Prix , which alternated between Mosport and Circuit Mont-Tremblant . The organization's demise came as a result of a boycott by Bernie Ecclestone 's FOCA of the Canadian Grand Prix in 1987, as detailed in Terry Lovell's Ecclestone biography, Bernie's Game . CASC's FIA accreditation was revoked at the international body's next General Assembly, and its powers were instilled upon

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240-849: The Canada Class; the original Honda Michelin series, the Players/GM Motorsport Series, and the Rothmans Porsche Cup series'. It also worked closely with its US counterpart, the SCCA , to develop and co-sanction the Can-Am , and Formula Atlantic series'. As Canada's national governing body, CASC sanctioned such major events as the Player's 200 sports car races, the Shell 4000 rally , the 24 Hours of Mosport , and

260-543: The RAC brand name in January 2008, and dissolved its partnership with The Co-operative Bank . Aviva sold the RAC to The Carlyle Group in June 2011. Although Carlyle had planned a stock market flotation for the RAC, in September 2014 Carlyle agreed to sell almost half its stake to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Private Limited . In December 2015, Carlyle agreed to sell its remaining stake to CVC Capital Partners , in

280-474: The associate section as R.A.C. Motoring Services Ltd. in 1978. In 1987, the organisation introduced an "Advanced Computer Aided Rescue System". In 1991, it established the RAC Foundation as its research arm. The RAC Foundation was later turned into a charity, and received a legacy from Royal Automobile Club members when R.A.C. Motoring Services Ltd. was sold in 1999. British School of Motoring (BSM)

300-696: The book The Chequered Past: Sports Car Racing & Rallying in Canada 1951 - 1991 by David A Charters. CASC history can be found at the archives of the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame . RAC plc RAC Limited ( The RAC ) is a British automotive services company headquartered in Walsall , West Midlands . Its principal services are roadside assistance and general insurance, and its subsidiaries include RAC Motoring Services Ltd, RAC Financial Services Ltd and RAC Insurance Limited. It

320-592: The car to make sure it is mechanically and structurally sound. The RAC also provides travel and traffic services including online route planners, in car navigation and help with travel documents. In 2006 , RAC teamed up with WSR (West Surrey Racing) to form Team RAC and to race in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) with two MG ZS cars and from 2007 onwards, two (and sometimes three) BMW E90 320si cars. The racing cars were liveried in RAC's corporate orange and have achieved

340-663: The country were developed. To get permits for International Races, CASC was affiliated with the Royal Automobile Club ( RAC plc ) of Great Britain until 1967, when it was recognized as a full member by the FIA as Canada's governing body of auto racing. The nation's motoring interests, meanwhile were represented to the FIA by the CASC's roadgoing counterpart, the CAA . During its lifetime, CASC developed strong national series', such as

360-699: The project before the construction phase, and voiced shock and sadness about what it described as the "alarmingly high number" of subsequent deaths. Grimshaw's first exhibition titled Product + Process debuted in 1988. The firm has since produced four exhibitions: Structure Space + Skin (1993), Fusion (1998), Equilibrium (2000), and Micro to Macro: Grimshaw in New York (2007). The latest exhibition, Equation : Design Inspired by Nature, launched on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre in Singapore. Equation explores

380-413: Was a private club owned by its members until sold in 1999, eventually acquired in 2014 and 2015 by GIC Private Limited and CVC Capital Partners . The RAC's main competitors are The AA and Green Flag . The Royal Automobile Club was formed in 1897 by Frederick Richard Simms , which set up an "associate section" to provide members roadside assistance and motoring services. The club incorporated

400-677: Was purchased by R.A.C. Motoring Services Ltd. in December 1998. The RAC moved into a bespoke control centre at the M4 / M5 interchange in Almondsbury in 1994, designed by Grimshaw Architects . In 1999, R.A.C. Motoring Services was sold by the members of the Royal Automobile Club to Lex Service for £437m, with each of the 12,000 members receiving £34,000, and each of the 4,000 RAC Motoring Services staff receiving £1,000. Lex Service renamed themselves RAC plc in 2002. In October 2000, RAC purchased Intergraph 's Computer Aided Dispatch System (I/CAD),

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