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Un jour, Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, alors qu’une bombe venait de détruire les bureaux de la Société en 1941, le directeur s’assit au milieu des gravats, vendant les reliquats du stock de pipes aux passants.</q> The Times<ref name=ahd5>The Times - (July 9, 1971). Obituary - Mr Alfred Dunhill, Pipes, tobacco and cigars. (P. 34). London [https://pipedia.org/images/b/b9/The_Times_1971-07-09.jpg]</ref>.  En voir plus à ce sujet ic [[WWII Phase]].
Un jour, Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, alors qu’une bombe venait de détruire les bureaux de la Société en 1941, le directeur s’assit au milieu des gravats, vendant les reliquats du stock de pipes aux passants.</q> The Times<ref name=ahd5>The Times - (July 9, 1971). Obituary - Mr Alfred Dunhill, Pipes, tobacco and cigars. (P. 34). London [https://pipedia.org/images/b/b9/The_Times_1971-07-09.jpg]</ref>.  En voir plus à ce sujet ic [[WWII Phase]].


Alfred Henry took over as president after his father's retirement, but as we can see in Mary's accounts, he had little autonomy - his uncle Bertie centralized everything in his hand with strict control. the business was run by Herbert until his death in 1950.
Alfred Henry devint président au départ en retraite de son père, mais ainsi que nous pouvons le lire dans les mémoires de Mary, il avait très peu d’autonomie. Son oncle Bertie gardait tout en main. L’affaire fut dirigée par Herbert jusqu’à son décès en 1950.


<blockquote><q>Soon after Father’s retirement in 1928 when Alfred Henry took over the chairmanship and became managing director in little more than name, a record of just about everything that happened in Duke Street and Notting Hill Gate had to be sent out to Uncle Bertie so that he could run the business by remote control. And control it he certainly did. Turnover figures were sent to him by daily telegram. Two male members of the staff took turns to travel to Merano, their bags stuffed with reports, accounts, proposed salary increases and requests that required his signature before they could be implemented, the most absurd example being the row over the tea-lady’s wages that had been increased by half-a-crown without Uncle Bertie’s authority. He was furious.</q> Mary Dunhill. <ref name=mary5> Dunhill, Mary (1979). Our Family Business (pp. 86-87). Great Britain, The Bodley Head.</ref></blockquote>  
<blockquote><q>Soon after Father’s retirement in 1928 when Alfred Henry took over the chairmanship and became managing director in little more than name, a record of just about everything that happened in Duke Street and Notting Hill Gate had to be sent out to Uncle Bertie so that he could run the business by remote control. And control it he certainly did. Turnover figures were sent to him by daily telegram. Two male members of the staff took turns to travel to Merano, their bags stuffed with reports, accounts, proposed salary increases and requests that required his signature before they could be implemented, the most absurd example being the row over the tea-lady’s wages that had been increased by half-a-crown without Uncle Bertie’s authority. He was furious.</q> Mary Dunhill. <ref name=mary5> Dunhill, Mary (1979). Our Family Business (pp. 86-87). Great Britain, The Bodley Head.</ref></blockquote>  
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