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Lanchester

Lanchester may refer to:

Places
  • Lanchester, County Durham, a village in England
  • Lanchester Polytechnic, former name of Coventry University
People
  • Elsa Lanchester (1902–86), Oscar-nominated English character actress
  • Frederick W. Lanchester, engineer who devised Lanchester's laws and founded Lanchester Motor Company
    • Lanchester's laws, mathematical formulae for calculating the strength of military forces
  • Henry Vaughan Lanchester, architect and brother of Frederick W.
  • John Lanchester (born 1962), British journalist and novelist.
Other uses
  • Lanchester Motor Company, now defunct Birmingham car manufacturer
  • Lanchester 4x2 Armoured Car
  • Lanchester 6x4 Armoured Car
  • Lanchester submachine gun, submachine gun used primarily by the Royal Navy in the Second World War