Word: commer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Depression gave him his chance. Rootes bought up, at distress prices, three famed but inefficient old companies-Humber, Hillman and Commer. He modernized their equipment and methods, had them paying dividends again within a year. Later the fast-growing Rootes Group took in others until it embraced 20 companies, including Sunbeam-Talbot...