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    Amherst Villiers (1900–1991) was an English automotive, aeronautical and astronautic engineer and portrait painter. He designed a land speed record-breaking...
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  • Fleming rejected them as not being suitable. Fleming asked his friend Amherst Villiers if he would be able to come up with a design for the car which was...
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    Ernest Amherst Villiers (14 November 1863 – 26 September 1923), was a British clergyman and Liberal politician. Villiers was the son of Reverend Charles...
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    land speed record car driven by Malcolm Campbell. Its designer was C. Amherst Villiers and Campbell's regular mechanic Leo Villa supervised its construction...
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    his cars with superchargers through Amherst Villiers and this association continued from AC to the Vauxhall-Villiers and then the famous 'White Riley',...
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  • Look up villiers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Villiers may refer to: Villiers, Indre, in the Indre département Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne département...
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    supercharged Bentleys was done in a workshop in Welwyn Garden City by Amherst Villiers, who also provided the superchargers. W.O. Bentley was hostile to forced...
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    technical help from Clive Gallop, Birkin engaged supercharger specialist Amherst Villiers. Mercedes-Benz had been using compressors for a few years. In the pursuit...
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  • Tobias Menzies as Villiers: M's young secretary at MI6 headquarters. His character's last name is a reference to James Villiers, who portrayed Bill...
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  • stories Fleming gave Bond a battleship-grey Bentley 4+1⁄2 Litre with an Amherst Villiers supercharger. After Bond's car was written off by Hugo Drax in Moonraker...
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