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British Leyland

British Leyland Chairman Lord Donald Stokes was something of an optimist. "This company is not bust," he defiantly declared in 1974. "We are merely in a cyclical decline."


Stokes, Sir Donald (?-    ) British automobile executive, Chairman of British Leyland

[Sources: Stephen Pile, Cannibals in the Cafeteria]


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