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Honda's career built on disasters

... first time. A car crash later ended his racing career and he concentrated on motor-cycles. Out of the wreckage of the second World War. using surplus materials, he formed the Honda Motor Co. and built it into a huge motor-cycle concern. Reuter says. Now ...

Published: Saturday 02 November 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Air ace's post

... Air Marshal Sir Peter Wykeham, aged 51, who was credited with the destrictlon of at least 15 enemy aircraft during the Second World War, has been appointed Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. ...

Published: Thursday 29 December 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 36 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

Wolverhampton Airere The highest award ofthe H onoured Royal Aeronautical Society, an Honoured honorary ..

... aeries of power-operated gun the Royal Flying Corps. turrets used in many aircraft He joined Boulton and Paul. during the second World War. of Norwich, in 1917 to start an The first of these turrets experimental aircraft departarmed the Defiant fighter, ment ...

Published: Wednesday 13 September 1961
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 230 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Old custom

... Old custom The curfew Del: at the Guild Chapel. Stratford-upon-Avon. silent since the second World War, may be rung again each day at 8 p.m. to revive an ancient cthtom. ...

Published: Friday 26 November 1965
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 30 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

BORMANN SEARCH

... secret police were last night hunting a man resembling Hitler's deputy, Martin Hamann, thought to have died at end of Second World War. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 May 1967
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 26 | Page: 35 | Tags: none

RECORD ATTENDANCE

... saw the Royal Academv'e exhantion on Thursday This la a record for any day at any art exhibition In Britain since the Second World War The exhibi UOl3 ends to-morrow. ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 37 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

RECORD ATTENDANCE

... the Royal Academy's exhibition on Thursday This is a record for any day at any art exhtbt• tion in Britain since the Second World War. The exhibition Inds to-morrow. ...

Published: Saturday 29 February 1964
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 37 | Page: 26 | Tags: none

Ex-governor

... Cross, former Governor of Tasmania, High Commissioner of Australia, and Minister of Shipping In the early part of the Second World War. e was 72. died in London yesterday. H. ...

Published: Tuesday 04 June 1968
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 34 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Bullet proof

... 72-year-old woman at Massa, near La Spezia 'ltaly'. has coughed up a bullet which lodged under her right shoulder in the second world war. ...

Published: Monday 16 April 1962
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 27 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CANAL LEASED

... agreement leasing the Soviet part of the Mama& Canal to Finland. The canal. which was in Finnish territory until the second World War, connects the Gulf of Finland with the timber forests of Eastern Finland ...

Published: Tuesday 28 August 1962
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 44 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Designer dies

... Designer dies Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson, designer of the blockbuster bombs used in the second World War, died at his home in Princes Court, Knightsbridge. Loudon, yesterday. He was 09 and a widower. ...

Published: Friday 25 November 1966
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 33 | Page: 31 | Tags: none