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JOHN B. KENDALL
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...
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."
As 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...
The 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...