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...tells me why they can't be carried out"), turned his father's auto-sales firm into Britain's largest distributor by unloading cars as fast as they could be delivered, then, deciding that the manufacturers were "too sluggish," bought up the Hillman, Singer, Sunbeam and Humber automaking firms and led the raid on the U.S. economy-car market in the early 1950s, making the family-owned Rootes Group such a profitable venture that Chrysler last year paid $35.2 million for a 30% interest in the company; in London...
Running Faster. Detroit is capitalizing on the trend. Last week, adding to its investment in France and Spain,, Chrysler Corp. bought a $34 million take in the British market by acquiring 30% of the stock of Rootes Motors Ltd., manufacturer of Humber, Hillman, Sunbeam and Singer cars. Last month Ford announced that it would spend $400 million over the next three years to expand and modernize its European plants, and General Motors is planning to invest $600 million in Europe over the next two years...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...Elizabeth was surprised, so were her subjects. After half an hour's conversation with Macmillan the Queen returned to Buckingham Palace, passing through a waiting crowd at the gates. A few minutes later a black Humber approached along the Mall. The man in the rear seat was a stranger; a private detective, it turned out. But the faintly smiling, aristocratically fair features of the man beside the driver were familiar enough. "It's Lord Home!" came the amazed shouts. "Astonishing!" gasped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard...
...with two revised versions of its low-cost Austin-Healey Sprite ($1,868). It has also converted its tiny Austin 850 into the 90-m.p.h. Austin-Cooper mini-sports sedan boasting twin carburetors, disc brakes, and sure-footed front-wheel drive. Rootes is pushing its prestigious, $4,295 Humber (30% of its buyers are doctors, who like its luxurious interior and unpretentious exterior...