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*'''Note''': <q>DUNHILL PARIS</q>. During World War II Dunhill London was unable to supply the Paris retail shop. As a consequence it appears that the Paris shop sourced pipes during those war years from French carvers, stamping the bit with a "D" inside a diamond (very much like the Parker bit stamp which is a "P" within a diamond) - Loring. | *'''Note''': <q>DUNHILL PARIS</q>. During World War II Dunhill London was unable to supply the Paris retail shop. As a consequence it appears that the Paris shop sourced pipes during those war years from French carvers, stamping the bit with a "D" inside a diamond (very much like the Parker bit stamp which is a "P" within a diamond) - Loring. | ||
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== About World War II == <!--T:53--> | |||
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During the bombing of the infamous Luftwaffe Blitz in London, there by mid-1941, the Alfred Dunhill store (and many others in the surrounding area) was bombed and almost totally destroyed. Only in 1953 was fully restored. A popular tale says that when this happened, Dunhill's employees called Sir. Winston Churchill at 4:00 a.m. to ensure that his private collection of cigars (which were stored in the store's humidifier) had already been safely transferred. | |||
The Second World War was a difficult time. The rationing that the war promoted was so draconian that Dunhill suffered from the scarcity of raw material until the beginning of the 50 years in the post-war period. | |||
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