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...Simpson arrived in a black Canadian Buick sedan which entered Ipswich with such rapidity as to have left behind down the road a cameraman's car doing 65 m.p.h. Her chauffeur was the King's own, and Ipswich police, manifesting no desire to write him a ticket for speeding, scrambled to throw open the courthouse gates for the Buick to dash in. With their truncheons they smashed two press cameras. Previously all newsreel crews had been sent completely out of Ipswich...
...Buckingham Palace and others from His Majesty's suburban snuggery Fort Belvedere, were turned over to her, together with a royal housekeeper named Mrs. Mason. Also transferred to the King's favorite were the King's crack chauffeur, George Ladbrooke, complete with a discreet black Canadian Buick sedan and the King's personal bodyguard of many years, 200 lb. Chief Inspector David Storier of Scotland Yard...
...visiting her new house to inspect the decoration, indulged in some hocus-pocus with the hall lights, said to have been devised by Bodyguardsman David Storier. When the hall light gave two short winks and one long, that meant that Chauffeur Ladbrooke was to start up the royal Buick and with engine buzzing open the door for Mrs. Simpson to dash from house...
...these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which he manipulated himself back into control of General Motors in 1916. Fatally entranced by the stockmarket, William Durant lost...
March 5 first British sovereign to order an automobile not made in the United Kingdom, a Canadian McLaughlin-Buick. March 18 first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk...