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<DIV>This is certainly true of the 19th C. I was *exhausted* reading “The
Memoirs of James Stephen” – the amount of walking he did! When his mother
(VW’s great-great-grandmother) was v. sick/dying/dead, he “rushed” from the
Strand to Stoke Newington – on foot. However, by the end of the C., with
electric trams and the internal combustion engine, things had changed.
See, e.g., Arthur Morrison’s “To Bow Bridge” about getting the tram on Sat night
to go to another borough where the pubs closed later:</DIV>
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title=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/morrison/arthur/tales-of-mean-streets/chapter3.html
href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/morrison/arthur/tales-of-mean-streets/chapter3.html">http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/morrison/arthur/tales-of-mean-streets/chapter3.html</A></DIV>
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<DIV>You are right about the trams not being allowed into central London; they
were forbidden by the Cities of Westminster and London. Where they were
allowed, as along the Embankment and through the Kingsway tunnel (still partly
used for traffic going N. from Waterloo Bridge), they had to install the more
expensive conduit system in order to avoid the unsightly overhead wires, and
poles. It is also true that trams became seen as more working class than
buses; I think they were cheaper than the buses and of course they enabled the
workers to commute.</DIV>
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<DIV>Back to buses: see KM’s “Two Tuppenny Ones, Please” (1917) – “Another penny
each, if you’re going on.” ... “That’s quite enough, my man.” – the two ladies
are going to the Boltons, which is a naice part of Earl’s Court.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=danelljones@bresnan.net
href="mailto:danelljones@bresnan.net">Danell Jones</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 14, 2013 3:48 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">'Stuart N. Clarke'</A> ; <A
title=vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vwoolf] More omnibuses</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Stuart. I just love all this.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">One
additional reflection on the middle-class people on the omnibus. B.S.
Rowntree’s <I>Poverty, A Study of Town Life</I>, (in which he studied poverty in
York) observed that poor people who were living at “merely physical
efficiency…must never spend a penny on railway fare or omnibus” (qtd in
<I>Documents from Edwardian England</I>, 203). Rowntree’s study of York &
Booth’s study of London suggested that nearly 30% of Edwardians lived in
poverty.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">Also,
and I’m not entirely sure of this, I believe the “new” electric trams at the
beginning of the century were faster & cheaper than the buses. They
ran from the suburbs bringing workers into town & along the Embankment, but
somehow I don’t think they were in Central London. (But perhaps someone
can correct me there.)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d">In
May, Tim & I went to the London Transport Museum for the first time.
It’s wonderful! You can actually sit in some Victorian omnibuses and early
Tube trains. Wonderful!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Stuart
N. Clarke<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 14, 2013 5:07 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] More
omnibuses<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">A Polish
translator of “The Waves” keeps asking us questions. Some answers are
pretty obvious, some require thinking about, but some are mysterious to a
greater or lesser extent. E.g.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-language: pl">“I like to
be with <SPAN style="BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow">people who twist
herbs”</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; BACKGROUND: yellow; mso-fareast-language: pl; mso-highlight: yellow">Isa
does the same sort of thing in ”Between the Acts”: </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“ I pluck the bitter herb by the
ruined wall, the churchyard wall, and press its sour, its sweet, its sour, long
grey leaf, so, twixt thumb and finger. . . .”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">However,
the phrase “twist herbs” is not familiar to me. But it’s caught someone’s
imagination!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><A
href="http://thegenealogyofstyle.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/those-who-twist-herbs">http://thegenealogyofstyle.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/those-who-twist-herbs</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">So, I don’t
feel too bad about puzzling over the following for several hours over a number
of years. Clarissa is in Bond St and observes:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“The
British middle classes sitting sideways on the tops of omnibuses with parcels
and umbrellas, yes, even furs on a day like this
...”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Firstly,
why does she only see middle-class people on the tops of omnibuses. Is she
blind to the lower classes? Did the lower classes tend to travel
downstairs and the middle classes upstairs? I don’t think so.
Perhaps it’s because it’s the middle of a weekday morning in Mayfair: why would
the working classes be on such a bus? Of course, there’s Edgar J. Watkiss,
but he’s obviously a workman, walking along the street “with his roll of lead
piping round his arm”. Was price relevant? Bus and tube fares
increased by 40% on 26 Sep 1920 to 1½d. for up to 1 mile, 2d. for 1½ miles, and
1d. per mile thereafter (Baker, p. 57). Elizabeth’s journey is about 3
miles: “she would like to go a little further. Another penny was it to the
Strand? Here was another penny then. She would go up the
Strand.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Secondly,
what puzzles me even more is “sitting sideways”. (a) What does this
mean? (b) Even if we know what it means, what is the significance of
“sideways”? Why even mention it?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Background:
In the first half of the 1920s in the centre of London, almost all buses were
double-decker with open tops and open staircases. (There were
single-deckers farther out, but they had roofs; otherwise, I suppose they would
have been like charabancs.) The driver was in the open air and had no
protection from the elements, not even a windscreen.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">While there
was quite a variety of vehicles (see earlier email), the majority fell into two
types: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The B:
downstairs passengers sat lengthways with their backs to the
windows.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><A
href="http://www.doubledecker-bus.com/2009/11/b-type">http://www.doubledecker-bus.com/2009/11/b-type</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><A
title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGOC_B-type
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGOC_B-type">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGOC_B-type</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The K (also
the S-type): downstairs passengers sat on “transverse seats, two by two either
side of the central gangway ... the layout with which we are familiar today”
(Baker, p. 57).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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href="http://www.doubledecker-bus.com/2009/11/k-type">http://www.doubledecker-bus.com/2009/11/k-type</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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title=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_K-type
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_K-type">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_K-type</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Neither
type had pneumatic tyres. In both, the upstairs passengers sat on
transverse wooden seats; we could say that they all sat “sideways”. The
days when the upstairs passengers sat back-to-back lengthways on a “knifeboard”
arrangement had long gone. The B-type was the first reliable motorised
bus; from about 1911 it “helped spell the end for the horse drawn bus”. I
suggest, very tentatively, that that word “sideways” is one more post-war ref.
in “Mrs. Dalloway”. The knifeboard arrangement upstairs belongs to the
horse-drawn past; see, e.g., this photo. from 1900:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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title=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/london-knifeboard-horse-bus-in-trafalgar-square-london-news-photo/3324619#
href="http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/london-knifeboard-horse-bus-in-trafalgar-square-london-news-photo/3324619">http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/london-knifeboard-horse-bus-in-trafalgar-square-london-news-photo/3324619#</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">[Correction
below: “London Transport General Company” ought to have read “London General
Omnibus Company”.]<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"> <A
title=stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com
href="mailto:stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com">Stuart N. Clarke</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Tuesday, September
03, 2013 3:08 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <A
title=vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Re: [Vwoolf] Pirate
omnibuses<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Yes, the
different bus companies had different colours.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>In <I>Moments of Being</I> Virginia remembered her mother,
who<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">“did all her immense
rounds—shopping, calling, visiting hospitals and work houses—in omnibuses.
She was an omnibus expert. She would nip from the red to the blue, from
the blue to the yellow, and make them somehow connect and convey her all over
London. Sometimes she would come home very tired, owning that she had
missed her bus or the bus had been full up, or she had got beyond the radius of
her favourite buses.”</SPAN><BR clear=all><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">However, by
the 1920s the main co. was the London Transport General Company (the LGOC, or
the “General”), and its livery was red, and that’s why London buses are red
today.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <A
title=danelljones@bresnan.net href="mailto:danelljones@bresnan.net">Danell
Jones</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Tuesday, September
03, 2013 3:01 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <A
title=vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</A>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> Re: [Vwoolf] Pirate
omnibuses<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Californian FB','serif'">I LOVE this Stuart!
<BR><BR>I knew there were competing bus companies. Weren't they painted
different colors? But I didn't know there were "pirates"!
<BR><BR>Thanks so much for sharing. It helps us see just how daring
Elizabeth is.<BR><BR>Danell<BR><BR><BR></SPAN><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">On 9/3/2013
7:54 AM, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Elizabeth
Dalloway gets on an “irregular” ‘bus in Victoria St, nr the Army and Navy
Stores:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“She took
a seat on top. The impetuous creature—a pirate—started forward, sprang away;
she had to hold the rail to steady herself, for a pirate it was, reckless,
unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly, circumventing dangerously, boldly
snatching a passenger, or ignoring a passenger, squeezing eel-like and
arrogant in between, and then rushing insolently all sails spread up
Whitehall.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Then into
Trafalgar Sq, along the Strand. She gets off at Chancery Lane, just past
the Royal Courts of Justice where the Strand becomes Fleet
St.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The most
famous bus route in London is the no. 11. The savvy (and economical)
tourist choses that bus rather than a tour bus, as the no. 11 goes past so
many famous sights, inc. St Paul’s, on its way to Liverpool St Station.
The new London bus starts on that route on 21
Sept:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><A
title=http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx
href="http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx">http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/projectsandschemes/15493.aspx</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“The very
first ‘pirate’ bus to operate in central London began work on route 11 ... on
5 August 1922, and by the end of 1923 there were 70 such operators.”, Michael
H. C. Baker, “London Transport in the 1920s” (Hersham, Surrey: Ian Allan
Publishing, 2009), p. 8.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The no.
11 goes past the Army & Navy Stores.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">The ref.
to a pirate bus is yet one more post-war ref. in “Mrs.
Dalloway”:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">“Some
young men, having acquired skills in a war which was described as the first
truly mechanical one, bought a war-surplus bus or lorry ... and set up
business. A downpayment of £100 was all that was necessary; the
Metropolitan Police had to approve the roadworthiness of the vehicle, but,
that done, it could operate wherever its owner chose. ... At the beginning of
1920 the demand for buses far outstripped the number available, and there was
plenty of scope for those who were prepared to take up the
challenge. Very few of these enterprises were long lived ...”
(“London Transport in the 1920s”, pp. 7-8).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Stuart<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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