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<q>Notwithstanding that lack of initial success, Alfred Dunhill sold his own car to raise the capital to open a tobacco shop at 31a Duke Street.</q> Loring, J. C., The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (self-published, Chicago, 1998). | <q>Notwithstanding that lack of initial success, Alfred Dunhill sold his own car to raise the capital to open a tobacco shop at 31a Duke Street.</q> Loring, J. C., The Dunhill Briar Pipe - The Patent Years and After (self-published, Chicago, 1998). | ||
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In an article called '''"Weird and wonderful"''' for The Telegraph, published By David Burgess-Wise in 16 Aug 2003, there is a very interesting historical summary. | |||
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<blockquote><q>Today's drivers want CD players and sat-nav systems. But the motorists of yesteryear equally craved their 'toys'. David Burgess-Wise recalls the impact of Dunhill's stores for motorists. | |||
True to its Edwardian slogan "Everything but the Motor", coined in the days when it supplied pioneering "automobilists" with a host of accessories for their horseless carriages, the luxury goods company Dunhill this year sponsored the Goodwood Festival of Speed's Soapbox Challenge, where motors are forbidden.</q> See the full article [https://pipedia.org/images/f/f7/Weird_and_Wonderful_-_Telegraph_Page.pdf here].</blockquote> | |||
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