Word: wolseley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though its 25,000-car annual turnout is dwarfed by the 890,000 cars produced under British Motors' five current makes (Austin, Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley), Jaguar will give B.M.C. needed strength in the luxury market. To make the most of its new ability to sell to every pocketbook, British Motors plans to increase overall output by 1970 to 1,500,000, about what Germany's Volkswagen, the present European leader, already produces...
...white minority government. With crude oil running out at the Mozambique port of Beira (source for Rhodesia's major pipeline), Smith announced that drivers would henceforth get only three to five gallons of gas per week, according to the size of their cars. His own black Wolseley went into the garage. The worst is yet to come: by the end of the month, ration coupons will replace the "honor system," which last week allowed hundreds of white Rhodesians to top off their tanks by bribing black filling-station attendants...
Though he climbed from ordinary mechanic to wealthy viscount, William Richard Morris never forgot his first skill. He built Morris Motors into Britain's biggest automaker, but until three years ago drove a 1939 Wolseley Eight with 215,000 miles on its speedometer -and replaced the parts himself when the Wolseley staggered. The human engine is less easy to repair. Last week at 85, weakened by four operations and a heart condition, William Richard Morris, the Viscount Nuffield, died...
...name of all the ladies of England." Tunneling actually began in 1880. But Parliament was swamped with protests. An opposition pamphlet painted the lurid picture: "Dover taken, the garrison butchered, the tunnel vomiting men of all arms, London invaded, England conquered." Britain's most respected Old Soldier, Baron Wolseley, rumbled: "Surely John Bull will not endanger his birthright, his liberty, his property simply in order that men and women may cross between England and France without running the risk of seasickness." Digging was stopped, but not the talk...