Westland Helicopters, which had a long-standing licence agreement with Sikorsky Aircraft to allow it to build Sikorsky's helicopters, extended the agreement to cover the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King soon after the Sea King's first flight in 1959.
It could also ease the politics, since it will not be easy to persuade powerful and long-standing licence-holders to vacate their bands.
The place is absolutely tiny, literally standing room only, and its licence allows only 10-12 people inside at any one time.
Giving evidence, her daughter told Southwark crown court: [Huhne] didn't want to lose his licence, he was standing for election and had to travel regularly to Eastleigh.
In exchange for an inflation-linked, future rise in the licence fee, rather than standing up to government bullying, the much-vaunted director general Tony Hall and new BBC Trust chair Rona Fairhead have instead compromised Auntie's independence.
A former councillor who stood by his decision to allow a serial rapist to get a licence to drive a taxi is standing for election.
In July Lyons said he was "up for the fight" in standing for a second term and last week suggested that the licence fee could forego its already agreed increase next year.
"Thousands lined the 14-mile route into London for a look at the world's first cosmonaut... Standing in an open silver Rolls-Royce with a specially issued licence plate 'YG-1 'YG-1i waved and grinned," reported Time Magazine.
Television footage showed streams of people walking out of an off-licence carrying bottles of alcohol, and in some cases protesters were standing on police cars or taunting officers standing around in riot gear.
They will recall the image of a political leader and man of God standing at the top of a hill surrounded by hundreds of men waving gun licences.
The biggest thing standing in the way of every service allowing place shifting is copyright protection and the regional licence agreements with movie and television studios.
