Reinventing the wheel

Received wisdom tells us that French executive cars don’t sell. Yet for 57 years Citroën pulled off a remarkable trick, in which it presented deliberately odd cars to an unsuspecting market – weird ca

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Whether they knew his name or not, whole generations of Brits were familiar with the work of Reginald Mount, who lent his talents to the Ministry of Information during World War Two and beyond. Mount,

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