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There were still muttered complaints. "What a grudging mood seems to have set in," complained Daily Express Columnist Godfrey Winn. Labor M.P.s protested the expense (an estimated $112,000) of the Caribbean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. There was grumbling over the Palace's refusal to let the young couple drive in an open car through London on their way to embarking, and the banning of any sightseeing craft from the vicinity of the yacht itself. But when the great day finally arrives this week, it could be safely predicted that all Britain will be vibrating like...
...fact, it was a trick photograph that Armstrong-Jones, posing as all three members of a proper Victorian family, had sent out as a Christmas card in 1954. All gags aside, irrepressible Margaret and Tony announced last week that they will honeymoon in the Caribbean on the royal yacht Britannia, which will sail a few hours after their wedding in Westminster Abbey...
From the day that the ingenious Romans set up their first roadside bibulium in conquered Britannia, there have been pubs in England. Such emblems as the White Horse (banner of the Saxons), the Sun (badge of Richard the Lionhearted) or St. George and0 the Dragon recall a proud past. There are four pubs in Whitehall controlled by the Queen herself, and there are scores more among the island's 58,000 that are entitled to use the noble arms of ducal patrons...
Britain's ailing aircraft makers believe that misery loves a new company. Last week Vickers-Armstrongs, maker of the turboprop Viscount and Vanguard, and English Electric Co., R.A.F. fighter-plane builder, sped up their longstanding merger talks. They also began courting Bristol Aircraft, maker of the turboprop Britannia. They feel they will need a big combine to compete against the Hawker-Siddeley Group and de Havilland Aircraft Co., which last month announced plans to merge. If stockholders approve, Hawker-Siddeley and de Havilland will become the biggest aircraft company in the Commonwealth (combined assets: $250 million...
...them. But it expects to end the Viscount run in 1960. The Viscount's successor, the Vanguard, which was first shown off last week, has a bare 40 orders from British European Airways and Trans-Canada Air Lines, far fewer than needed to break even. Bristol, whose turboprop Britannia was slowed by bugs, has sold only...