The small, ancient City of London at its core once contained the whole settlement, but as the urban area grew the City Corporation resisted attempts to amalgamate it with its suburbs, causing "London" to be defined in a number ways for different purposes.
A further blow came in 1959, when the Menzies government decided to amalgamate it with the Canberra University College.
Hilliard said that the risk management policy operated by the joint venture obscured the likelihood of a terrorist attack by amalgamating it with the lesser expectation of damage to a pipeline – producing a combined lower score that did not trigger an alarm.
A planned town, incorporated in 1955 and named for a local brook, it became a city in 1956 when it amalgamated with the adjacent communities of Town Site, Corner Brook East and West, Curling, and Humbermouth.
This used to be Melcombe Regis, until it amalgamated with Weymouth, to the south, in 1571.
In 1883 it amalgamated with Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr's Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging ("Farmer's Protection Association").
It amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1846.
This vision was evidently influential on the establishment of the Australian National University (ANU) in 1946, the only research-only university in the country (although in 1960 it amalgamated with Canberra University College to offer undergraduate courses).
Its locomotives and rolling stock were built and maintained at Swindon Works but other workshops were acquired as it amalgamated with other railways, including the Shrewbury companies' Stafford Road works at Wolverhampton, and the South Devon's workshops at Newton Abbot.
It was disbanded for a final time in 1987, when it was amalgamated with the 10th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment to form the 10th/27th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment.
