Over the years, the Mercury did very well and garnered sales that would have otherwise went to other marques, proving Ford needed Mercury as a stepping-stone to bring Ford owners up the sales ladder. A jump from a Ford to a Lincoln would be unheard-of, yet the progression of ownership from a Ford to a Mercury then Lincoln was the same as a Chevrolet owner going to a Buick then a Cadillac. Fast forward to 1964 and it's Mercury's 25th anniversary. While the hoopla was rather subdued and limited mostly to advertising pitches, the '64 Mercury did bear the XXV designation on the horn button. It also sported a new grill bearing a Lincoln influence, and the rear taillamps were closer to the '59 Continental than the round units found on the '64 Ford. For Red Henry of Portage la Prairie, a 1994 ...
Here we're looking at a car that was literally rescued from the crusher over forty years ago. Paul Horch of Winnipeg has been a car enthusiast for as long as he can remember. "It was November of 1968 when I was out driving around looking for old cars, that I came across this 1940 Mercury sedan in Headingley off of Roblin Blvd.," says Horch. Sitting in a field it wasn't much more than a condo for mice and other ground residents, but Horch hauled it home thanks to a trusty towbar. The next spring Horch went to work on the car only to find it wouldn't start because of a cracked engine block. A trip to Princess Auto, when they were still in the salvage business, yielded a later '46 to '48 flathead 239 cubic inch V8 for the Mercury. Requiring a rebuild it was sent to Gillis & Warren wher...
In addition to standard T8 lamps and electronic ballasts, a new generation of optimized, "high-efficiency" T8 lamps and electronic ballasts has recently been introduced. Available in a range of energy-saving models, including 30 watt, 25 watt, and 17 watt versions, these products can reduce total system wattage by over 45 percent relative to the use of older T12 fluorescent systems driven by magnetic ballasts, and by as much as 20-30 percent relative to the use of conventional T8 lamps and electronic ballasts. Low mercury versions are also available to ensure that the lamps do the utmost to promote environmental responsibility and sustainability. Through the incorporation of amalgam technology, which enables the delivery of greater light output over a wider temperature range, these fluo...
Recent research on Arctic contaminants suggests the rapid increase in mercury concentrations in whales, seals and bears has more to do with how those animals are feeding in an Arctic that's rapidly losing its summer ice. We don't want to let the industrial polluters off the hook, but we now think climate change is the culprit," says [Gary Stern], the chief scientist aboard the Canadian Coast Guard research vessel Amundsen, an icebreaker overwintering in Arctic waters south of Banks Island in the Northwest Territories. "It looks like a mercury mystery, that's for sure," says Stern. "But those are not mutually exclusive conditions.
Sherry Fobister's 9-year-old daughter Catherine has those symptoms and many more. "They always say there's one in 10,000 births where it happens to kids, it's like a lottery, which kid gets it. And they don't know what causes it. The study, by Laurie Chan of McGill University, is an examination of mercury contamination in the fish eaten by residents of Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong, so it's not designed to answer questions about still births and symptoms. But Chan tested the hair of 142 residents of the two communities. Two from Grassy Narrows and four from Wabaseemoong had mercury concentrations exceeding Health Canada's "acceptable" level of 6 mg/kg, but all were under the "at risk" level of 30 ppm. [Paul Spendlove]'s comment does not deal with the new theory about the value of hai...
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