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...manufacturing prowess. In Portsmouth harbor, Britain's vastest, newest battleship, the 42,500-ton Vanguard, was laden with three vanloads of baggage, a refrigerator freight car full of choice game. Five Vickers Viking planes equipped with the latest safety gadgets, four dozen or so sleek, new Daimler, Austin and Humber motorcars, a 14-coach, ivory-and-gold train, complete with telephones, offices, kitchens, salons and armor-plate windows had been shipped ahead. The Vanguard herself was tricked out with curtains, carpets, elaborate apartments for the royal travelers, and a special platform on which they could be seen at naval...
...slightly bent posture of an old lady (she is 79), and yet she seems to be as sound as a rock and full of quiet dignity. Like any charming oldster, Queen Mary has developed some pleasing eccentricities. For instance, she always rides in the forward jump-seat of her Daimler, coupling an old-fashioned inclination to see where she is going with an equally old-fashioned desire to sit up straight. And her unswerving devotion to prewar (World War I, of course) conventions leads her to cling rather impishly to her hat styles and to carry a parasol whenever possible...
...boulevards, where ill-fed Parisiennes in gay print frocks strolled beneath the blooming chestnuts, and swung through the faded green wooden gates into the courtyard of the Luxembourg Palace. A black, bullet-proof Cadillac yielded a grey, tired-looking Molotov. As the courtyard clock struck 4, an oldfashioned, boxlike Daimler arrived. Red-faced, breathing heavily, Ernie Bevin half ran up the steps as if afraid he would be late...
...little man whom the Japanese regard as the Son of Heaven emerged from his walled and moated palace for the first time since the conquerors had landed in his country. He wore a cutaway, striped trousers, a wing collar, a top hat. He climbed into an old but immaculate Daimler. His Imperial Grand Chamberlain sat reverently facing him on a jump seat...
...Times, attends to cables and correspondence. By 10 o'clock he is ready for visitors in his big bay-windowed reception room. By n he has changed his slippers, buttoned up his red-tabbed bush jacket with the Field Marshal's insignia, and is off in his Daimler for another meeting of the Dominion Prime Ministers...