Word: siddeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favored by the ladies and their boys as leading aircraft-armaments stocks are Rolls-Royce, Fairey and Hawker-Siddeley. Last week Rolls-Royce was so preoccupied with producing aircraft engines that swank motorists eager to plank down ?1,850 ($9,250) for the new 12-cylinder Rolls-Royce "Phantom III" were told that they cannot expect delivery before February...
...semi-invalid father, the Duke of Buccleuch, prefers her as a driver to any other member of his family. Another keen motorist in the family is Lord George Scott, the Duke's youngest son, who is often seen driving along the Border roads in a 20-h.p. Armstrong Siddeley...
Britain was not only preparing vastly to increase her air force, but just to mak it sporting she lately sold 80 Armstrong Siddeley airplane engines to Germany. Rumors spread quickly that General von Ribbentrop was also in London to try t arrange purchase of 150 more British engines for commercial purposes, of course, since Britain has a special law preventing the sale of war supplies to any foreign power except under special government license Very curt was the British Government last week to the French Embassy's suggestion that such powerful air plane engines as the Armstrong Siddeleys might...