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...bought a Rolls-Royce, a Chevrolet, a yacht, rented a flat in London, built himself a luxurious ?22,000 house in Grantham. He threw lavish parties. And when he stood for Parliament as a champion of the little people, the grateful little people of Grantham elected him, twice...
Bigger Trouble. When peace came, Kendall seemed well prepared. Leaving British Manufacture and Research, he talked a group of rich Indians into putting ?300,000 into his own Grantham Productions, leased the Grantham plant and announced his car, for "the little people...
...the.months passed, Grantham Productions was able to turn out only half a dozen samples of the People's Car (on which the price had gradually risen to ?250). Suppliers, said Kendall, had let him down. And his capital, ridiculously tiny in the first place, was gone. Grantham Productions owed...
...people of Grantham kept their faith as Kendall scurried romantically off to India to look for more money. He came back emptyhanded, but talked melodramatically of a "miracle." Then he rushed off to meet a mysterious man in London's Cumberland Hotel who was to save the People's Car. But the miracle did not happen. Finally Kendall told the faithful at Grantham: "I've failed...
Next day he faced his creditors and told his story. It was not enough. They voted for a voluntary liquidation of Grantham Productions...