The company remains a force in the British motor industry, even without Rover's volume-car production, as Mr Milberg is understandably anxious to point out.

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Simpson didn't have an engineering degree, either, but that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during WWII.

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The Ford Motor Company has assembled a task force of 92 people to develop a plan to revitalize their ailing Lincoln brand, whose total sales last year were only slightly more than a third of what they were 20 years ago.

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