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The black gang are the members of a ship's crew who work in the fire room/engine room; they are also called stokers or firemen. They are called "black" because of the soot and coal dust that is thick in the air in the fire room/engine room.
Following his experiences in Bulldog Drummond, Bulldog Drummond forms an organisation (the titular Black Gang) to operate, using brutal and illegal means, against left-wing movements in England. Alarmed by setbacks caused by the gang's activities, Carl Peterson, who is secretly the mastermind behind the left-wing movements, comes to ...
- H. C. McNeile
- 1922
Black gangs were created as protection against white violence. They first arose on the Eastside of LA before extending south and west. Eventually, white residents began moving out of South LA into the suburbs. In the early 1960s, Black gang violence continued to grow as whites left the area. The Black gangs, which started as ...
Although the First World War is over, it seems that the hostilities are not, and when Captain Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond discovers that a stint of bribery and blackmail is undermining England’s democratic tradition, he forms the Black Gang, bent on tracking down the perpetrators of such plots.
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30. März 2012 · With the coal strike of 1912, the black gangs were hit hard as ships stayed in port and men were laid off. Priest was one of the lucky few to find a job on Titanic as it prepared for its maiden...
The Black Gang, performed expertly by veteran narrator Roy McMillan, is the tension-filled tale that follows Drummond and his gang of ex-army friends as they try to do what the police have yet to do: foil the evil plans of Carl Peterson.
