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After spending $250,000 drilling for oil in England, Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. recently opened a promising field at Dalkeith, ten miles from Edinburgh. Last week Anglo-American made its first shipment (2,000 gal.) from Dalkeith to its refinery at Purfleet on the Thames. It took the biggest "shot" ever exploded in the British Isles, over 500 lb. of gelatinous nitroglycerin, to bring in the new Scottish field. Result was the biggest yield of oil thus far struck in the British Isles; at 750 feet the yield of one well is a modest 10 bbl. a day. Usable...
...engagement, she and her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, traveled the 200-odd miles from Selkirk in this car, and Lady Alice relieved the chauffeur at the wheel when they reached the Scottish Highlands. This Rolls-Royce belongs to Lady Alice's eldest brother, the Earl of Dalkeith...
...Earl owns also, and often drives, a Rover, also a great favorite of Lady Alice. On more than one occasion Lord Dalkeith, summoned suddenly to London, has returned to discover that his Rover is missing. More often than not Lady Alice is the culprit...
...enthusiasm of the Duke of Gloucester for motoring is largely due to the Buccleuch family. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lord George Scott have been for years close personal friends of his, and now, instead of traveling by train, the Duke nearly always visits his fiancée's family by car. The Duke's favorite at the moment is a Sunbeam, and Lady Alice now knows as much about the car as the Duke himself. She has driven it often with the Duke sitting beside her, and Border rumor has it that he actually proposed...
...Twenty-Five.....................................Twenty English.........................................Scottish Sportsman.......................................Sportswoman "Best Princely Dancer In England"..............."Most Beautiful daughter of a Scottish Duke" Career: Eton; Sandhurst; Royal Rifles;..........Often hostess at the Duke's four seats: Thirteenth Hussars; Tenth Hussars;..............Dalkeith House, Dalkeith; Bowhill, Selkirk; cornerstones; inspections, etc., etc., etc......Drumlanrig Castle, Thornhill; Boughton House, .................................................Kettering, Northants Old Family.......................................Older* Family...