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Old 18-12-20, 10:49
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Can't leave out the Morris version
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Found a Govt. gazette with more info . Apparently the Govt. were paying more ( around 500 pounds total for each car ) than the advertised 'pegged' selling price for these tillies, in other words the tillies were subsidized . One newspaper report indicates that 1200 tillies were imported but that figure seems to be a inflated number, my rough estimate, which is calculated from the low number of tillie survivors, is that the number imported is likely to be in the low hundreds
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Old 22-12-20, 03:30
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Tillies were subsidized when sold to civilians
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