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supply to plan the rationalisation of the United
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On either side a Winged Horse Argent hoofed and crined Or
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in the business established by his father and his uncle,
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In 2011 he was one of seven inaugural inductees to the
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378:and in 1942 he was chairman of the Tank Board.
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66:In office
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