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...Wages. In 1938 he turned up in the Lincolnshire town of Grantham as works manager of the Hispano-Suiza 20-mm. cannon works (later the British Manufacture and Research Co.). With him Kendall brought a picaresque legend: a Yorkshire miller's son, he had run away to sea at 14, made $5,000 helping police raid opium dens along China's Yangtze River, run a waterfront cabaret in Shanghai. Eventually he ended up in Philadelphia as a steeplejack. Later he went to work for Philadelphia's Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. He rapidly rose to Budd...
Citroen auto plant and eventually Citroen's works manager. Then he went to Grantham...
With his deep-set blue eyes, his "well-groomed earthiness" and his tremendous shirtsleeve energy, Kendall took Grantham's fancy. But it was his production of millions of pounds worth of World War II cannons and high wages (?11 a week) that made him something of a British industrial hero and legend...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore, onetime chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East, was defeated as Conservative candidate in a by-election. Winner (by 367 votes) was an unknown Independent candidate, William Denis Kendall, black-haired, blue-eyed, 38-year-old manager of a Grantham war-production factory. It was the first time in 44 elections since the Party truce went into effect that a full-fledged Conservative candidate had been defeated by an Independent...
...Oelhelm, 6-2, 6-3. Robertson (H) defeated Mann, 6-1, 6-2. Bontley (H) defeated Martin, 6-3, 6-0. Fuld (H) defeated Reed, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles: Glidden and Robertson (H) defeated Mann and Martin, 6-1, 6-3. Thackara and Helmholtz (H) defeated Noel and Grantham, 6-0, 6-1. Bentley and Wallace (H) defeated Oelheim and Hewlit...