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Thomas Rickett from Buckingham, England, made a steam-powered car in 1860. Several examples were made and it was also advertised.
Rickett may refer to:
- Harold Rickett (1909–1969), English rower who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Horace Rickett (1912–1989), English footballer
- Joseph Compton-Rickett (1847–1919), Liberal Party politician in England
- Sophy Rickett (born 1970), visual artist, working with photography and video/sound installation
- Thomas Rickett, creator of the Rickett (car) in 1860, a steam-powered car from Buckingham, England
- Walter Rickett (1917–1991), professional footballer who played as a winger
- William Rickett or William Ricketts (1898–1993), Australian potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement
Usage examples of "rickett".
Honor, Mayor Leland Ricketts, fluttered down the high steps that led into the Municipal Office Building.
Mayor Ricketts looked resplendent in winged collar, cutaway and striped trousers.
Leland Ricketts over the telephone to New York had been pompous and friendly.
Mayor Ricketts here in Powertown had been pompous and not so friendly.
He thinks I killed Mayor Ricketts and that Ricketts was the Roar Devil.
Mayor Ricketts, with guns that we hide in his house, and the note that we fake on his typewriter.
Savage thinks Mayor Leland Ricketts, who is now dead, was the Roar Devil.
Joint Committee would later ask both Griffin and Ricketts if artillerymen used a rule of thumb about how many infantrymen should accompany a battery.
When Ricketts was asked the same question, his response was more reflective, but he offered a similar conclusion.
He was well-acquainted with Ricketts and had spoken to him before placing the Fire Zouaves behind him.
McDonald said that the Thirty-third Virginia regiment fired at both Griffin and Ricketts at the same moment.
Dillon, Marshall, Pullings and young Ricketts stood attentively, not speaking, looking sometimes at their new captain and sometimes at the sail.
Mr Ricketts, you had better lie twenty yards off or so, and deliver them from temptation.
As soon as they saw him looming in the dim glow of the hatchway the master and young Ricketts moved silently over to the larboard side, and Jack resumed his solitary pacing from the taffrail to the aftermost deadeye.
Not ten minutes after the swabber had removed all traces of the scene, Babbington was flying about the upper rigging in pursuit of Ricketts, with the clerk toiling with laborious, careful delight a great way behind.