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Rolls-Royce will start hand-building the cars at its south England plant in September, with the first deliveries scheduled to go out in early January. The company says it expects to sell about 2,000 Ghosts annually, although Purves says that may not happen until after the recession is over. "It's not at all a frothy environment [right now]," he admits. But analysts say the sales figure is a realistic goal. John Wormald, managing partner of the British automotive consultant Autopolis, says sales of the Ghost could eventually reach 5,000 a year...
...Everyone I met at the park was amazingly nice, to the point that I genuinely believed everyone was a paid plant. At one point in the game, Austin Autry opens a pack of baseball cards, flips through them, then pulls one out of the deck…a Vladimir Guerrero card...
...iconic innovations of the 20th century. Almost 60 years after American inventor Edwin H. Land sold the first Model 95 of his new instant-picture camera in Boston in November 1948, the troubled Polaroid Corp. halted its cassette-film production for good. Demand was still relatively high - the plant churned out 30 million cassettes in 2007 and 24 million in the first half of 2008 - but the plant had run out of its allocated amount of the chemical components needed to make its famous instant film, and Polaroid's decision to move to digital meant there was no point...
...attending the factory's closing ceremony had other ideas. Florian Kaps, an Austrian entrepreneur and Polaroid enthusiast, and André Bosman, until then the engineering manager of the Enschede plant, met by chance on that fateful day. Together they decided to find a way to bring instant photography back to life. (See "Who We Were: America in Snapshots...
...October 2008, Kaps, 39, and Bosman, 55, took $2.6 million in private capital and started what they endearingly called the Impossible Project, with a view to reinventing the traditional Polaroid film. They founded a company named Impossible, leased a small building on the site of the closed Enschede plant, secured some key production machinery and hired nine former Polaroid employees to come up with new formulas for both a monochrome and a color version of the instant film. The new films would have unique characteristics but still maintain some of the best bits of Polaroid, like the square shape...