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Finishing work could be internal and outside. The internal concerns daubing and painting of surfaces, to outside are joint pointing, daubing, stacking of stones in an outside layer, facing by a sheeting.
To warm garage and to protect from effect of an atmospheric precipitation, it is necessary to plaster it. Plaster represents a layer of the hardened solution, which is put in one or 3—4 procedures on a surface with consolidation and alignment.
Usually plasters discriminate: depends on purpose — on usual and special; on kinds of binding — on cement, cement-limy, …
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Volvo presents the safest car
The new compact Volvo crossover is beautiful from every view point. Your attention would surely catch its backlights with waves of LEDs.
The Swedish designers intrigued the public with their new crossover XC60 a lot. According to modern PR rules before the presentation Volvo started issuing portions of info as to this car (we’ve recently mentioned its pictures runoff) and now XC60 is completely uncovered.
Fredrik Arp – Volvo Car Corporation President – seems to be quite happy: “It’s not only the safest but the most spectacular Volvo …
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The bus
The bus is a vehicle capable of carrying over 8 passengers without any trolleys or rails needed. Buses with length up to 5.5 meters are called minibuses (small class busses by Russian classification) and the rest of the world determines minibuses and minivans capable of carrying 9-16 passengers. Buses are manufactured at auto factories that do the complete or partial production (body production, chassis production or assembly).
Historical highlights
The first bus that had a steam engine and capable of carrying 8 passengers was made and presented by Richard Trevirtick on …
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Heat insulation and waterproofing are the major stages at garage building. They provide its safety and long serving.
Thermal insulation.
The thermal insulation usually consists of the basic heat-insulation layer, an external protective layer and fastenings.
The basic heat-insulation layer provides protection of a premise from penetration of coldness and consists usually of the materials possessing low heat conductivity.
The external protective layer protects the basic heat-insulation layer from damage, moisture hits. Protective blanket make from plaster solutions, synthetic foil, fibreglasses, asbestos-cement materials, etc.
Fastenings provide certain durability of heat insulation designs.
Before making the basic …
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Building of garage is rather serious task for car owners, especially if your are not skilled builder and want to make everything yourself. In this case you have to find out as more as it possible information about garage building to know all details about erection of garage.
Ideal material for erection of garage walls is the brick.
The expense of a material on one square meter of wall brickwork at a thickness of a wall in a half-brick: a brick — 50 pieces, a solution — 35 liters. At a thickness …
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The bike types
For the beginning bikers in order to choose the right bike matching their tasks it is useful to know the basic bike types.
Classical bike
It implies time-tested design and arrangement, straight biker’s seating and easy care, trustworthiness and comfort. By its appearance the classical bike may look like chopper (but without imposing rider’s seating) or like sport bike just with more “calm” engine features and “longer” tractive gears.
Sport bike
The base to sport bikes design is maximum power at minimum weight. The rest is not essential. The sport bike rider …
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What is scooter?
Its operating devices (gas rode and front and back break levers) are mounted on steer allowing legs to rest. Its automatic clutch is made the way that when you turn the gas rode the soft traction of back clutch is performed and it starts moving. Simply, to start movement you have to put more gas without any shifting. That is the scooter.
Scooters classification
Mini (tiny scooters with 8-10” wheels and weight of 50-70 kg).
Scoters are designed for city rides only. They have small wheels and are small framed. In …
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AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORT
The automobile transport is an essential element of production and services. Jointly with labor, capital and land transportation determines the production economics and is taken into account in any economic decisions. The sender determining the ways and means of transportation has to evaluate the transportation cost and services quality which would later affect the products price.
Transportation cost is the price presumed by transporting company to cover company’s expenses on its creation, functioning and development. In USA the cargo automobiles (trucks) are the most universal and convenient mean of …
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Cargos transportation and cargo vehicles
The role and economy of cargos transportation. In USA the railroads deliver more cargos than trucks but in the rest developed countries it is vice versa. Besides Western Europe and Japan that have technically perfect railways (mainly for public transportation) the rest of the world has primarily old-fashioned railway systems. In many developing countries industrial zones are connected to sea or river docks and railway stations but there are not good railway systems able to compete with automobile transport. It’s easier, cheaper and faster to build …
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BMW Company
Today’s BMW starting with small air motors plant manufactures its cars at 5 German plants and 22 affiliated plants worldwide. It is one of several companies that do not robotize the assembly process as all its cars are assembled by people and after words the computers only diagnose the basic cars’ parameters.
The company was founded in 1916 by Karl Rupp and Gustav Otto under Bayerische Flugzeugwerke name – The Bayer’s air motor plants. Those days no one would think of that small enterprise to grow into the automobile giant.
Before …
