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Tense Hands & Phone Call. Airman Townsend, slim, wavy-haired fighter-pilot hero of the Battle of Britain, was the first to get to London. Looking fit and 41, he arrived with his Nile green Renault sedan on a Bristol cargo plane at Lydd airport, packed his gear and his gentleman-jockey's tack into the back seat, and drove straight to the Lowndes Square home of Marquess Abergavenny, a close friend of the royal family. That same evening the press learned that Princess Margaret was due in from Scotland next morning. A battery of reporters stood at Euston Station...
...their mechs. And even the best of them ran into the kind of trouble no grease monkey can cure. Sweeping into a wide, unbanked turn, Texan Bob Said squinted over the hood of his three-liter Ferrari and saw danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing down on a stretcher where Renault Driver Jean Rédelé, badly shaken, was waiting to be carried off. Said drifted wider and a parked Cadillac ambulance loomed in front of him. He swung...
...make sure that nobody missed his message Townsend took to hailing newsmen from his Renault Frégate on his way to the stables for his morning ride. "I say, chaps, are you trying to get hold of me?" One reporter finally suggested he could stop all this simply by issuing a denial of the romance rumor. Said Townsend, affable and imperturbable: "I know...
...FIAT will soon be put on the European market to compete with Volkswagen and Renault. To replace the famed Topolino as its smallest and cheapest car (TIME, Oct. 18), Fiat is rolling out the "Popolare." The boxy, four-passenger, 21.5-h.p. lightweight (1,234 lbs.) car is tagged at $944 before taxes in Rome, v. $1,090 for the Topolino. Current production of the Popolare...
...World War II, Lefaucheux took an active part in the French Resistance movement, was made Renault president after the Liberation, when the government confiscated the company on the grounds that it had collaborated with the Nazis...