Word: lancia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peers for a felony. Reason: de Clifford is a disciple of British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, the only foreign Fascist whose portrait hangs in Rome at Fascist Party headquarters. Like the good Fascist he is, Lord de Clifford bought himself some time ago an Italian supercharged Lancia in which to burn up the road between Belisha beacons. While doing so one night the Italian Lancia met a British Frazer-Nash head on and killed Douglas George Hopkins, the sporting secretary of the Frazer-Nash Car Club, who was driving with his sister Sheila and her friend Rosemary Reynolds...
Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip clipped out a dry, unemotional prosecutor's speech for the Crown: ". . . The police constable found the defendant's Lancia car near the middle of the road, and, like the deceased's Frazer-Nash, it was badly damaged. ... I shall submit that, if your Lordships' defendant was driving in a reckless, careless, negligent manner on this occasion and by so driving caused the death of Douglas George Hopkins, your Lordships should find him guilty of the offense of manslaughter...
Most of the cars entered in the race are of foreign make with two Amilcars, two MG Midgets, one Lancia and one MG Magna leading the field...
...Lancia, from Italy, was the only foreign exhibit. Last week Lancia was testily advertising that it had had independent front wheel action since...