• 1980s. Edwardes was born in Port Elizabeth, and was matriculated from St. Andrew's College in 1947 before graduating from Rhodes University. Edwardes began...
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  • Cheryl Edwardes (born 1950), Australian retired politician David Edwardes (fl. 1532), English anatomist Francis Edwardes (disambiguation), three Edwardes baronets...
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  • former Republican congressman Michael Edwardes (born 1923), British historian, mostly on the subject of India Sir Michael Edwardes (1930–2019), South African...
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  • nationalised by the Government. In 1977, a new managing director, Michael Edwardes, was appointed. He aimed to find a resolution to the ongoing industrial...
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    published by Aakar Books 2007, chapters 5 and 6 Edwardes (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; p. 122 Edwardes Red Year: one of two quotations to begin pt...
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    until all-new products were ready for launch. On 26 December 1979, Michael Edwardes officially signed a collaboration between the two companies. The new...
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    Gokhale: revolution and reform in the making of modern India (1962) p 67 Michael Edwardes, High Noon of Empire: India under Curzon (1965) p. 77 Moore, "Imperial...
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    Archived from the original on 10 April 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2014. Michael Edwardes (1975) Red Year. London: Sphere Books; p. 104 Christopher Hibbert (1980)...
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    British Architecture in India, 1660–1947. New York: Penguin Books, 1987 Michael Edwardes, Battles of the Indian Mutiny, Pan, 1963, ISBN 0-330-02524-4 Ashutosh...
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    by Mehtab Singh were located on the first-story of the structure. Michael Edwardes had dated the mural paintings of the tower to the early 19th century...
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    be built and new policies implemented by BL's new chief executive, Michael Edwardes, led to the Lynx's cancellation. Triumph planned a coupé version of...
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    forced a major change in the project's focus. In late 1977, BL chairman Michael Edwardes ordered that ADO88 be given an eleventh-hour redesign to make it both...
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    long) by C. G. Rossetti is reprinted in an appendix to Red Year, by Michael Edwardes, 1975, as part of an appendix "The Muse and the Mutiny" (pp. 174-183)...
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    agreement with Japan's Fujitsu. In 1984, Laidlaw was succeeded by Sir Michael Edwardes, previously chairman of motor manufacturer British Leyland. On 26 July...
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    spend a few days with Edwardes, and lived in his beloved friend's house for some time when Edwardes' wife Emma was in England. Edwardes and his wife soon...
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    Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 13 April 2019. Michael Edwardes, Battles of the Indian Mutiny, Pan, 1963, ISBN 0-330-02524-4 Richard...
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    the Marina name was dropped on the orders of British Leyland CEO, Michael Edwardes, and only the Ital name was used. The Ital had revised exterior styling...
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    bailed out by the government under the Ryder Report of 1975, and Sir Michael Edwardes was brought in to oversee the company. Under his leadership, BL made...
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    name. The old Austin engine was no longer available because, during Michael Edwardes' reconstruction of British Leyland, the plant had been sold to India...
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    struggling. A rationalisation plan introduced by incoming BL chairman Michael Edwardes saw the TR7 put on life support by axing the MG MGB as it was felt...
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  • continued the government's slow nationalisation programme by appointing Michael Edwardes to take over at British Leyland. When Labour went into opposition in...
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    International Motor Museum respectively. One was used by BL chairman Sir Michael Edwardes as personal transport in the late 1970s. The two cars as befit prototypes...
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    whether he learned of it. Original from the University of Michigan Michael Edwardes (1971). East-West Passage: The Travel of Ideas, Arts, and Inventions...
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