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From the September 1986 issue of Car and Driver.
There was a time when engines with fuel injection, double overhead cams, and four valves per cylinder could be found only in breathlessly expensive cars built in tiny volumes by manufacturers most car people worshiped as gods. When General Motors tried to mass-produce such technology, the experiment ended in dismal failure. The General went off to lick its wounds and forced American car owners to do penance by selling them tired old four-bangers (Iron Dukes) that should have been retired when spats went out of vogue.
Iron Duke was a well-designed ship, capable of outgunning its German (if not its American) counterparts.
Here s What You Need To Remember: HMS Iron Duke and its sisters perfectly captured the “super dreadnought” concept; their large guns, tripod masts and balanced appearance made them look both stout and deadly. Iron Duke seemed singularly well named for its role as flagship of the Grand Fleet, although it is odd that the greatest collection of Royal Navy capital ships was led by a ship that took the name of a British Army commander.
HMS Iron Duke was the second battleship named after the Duke of Wellington. The first, scrapped in 1906, had the distinction of ramming and sinking HMS Vanguard, another Royal Navy battleship. The second Iron Duke was the name ship of the last class of dreadnoughts to enter Royal Navy service prior to the beginning of World War I. It and its sisters were considered “super-dreadnoughts,” an ill-defined term that distinguishes the second generat
NOW RETIRED, David Evans managed St Fort Farm in Fife for 27 years before moving down to Lincolnshire to manage a 4000 acre estate belonging to the Limestone Farming Company for a further 15 years. He spent his retirement in North Wales where he owned 15 acres and kept 20 cows until he was no longer able to look after them, and sold the remainder of his beloved Lincoln Red Herd to the Balcaskie Estate in Fife. He now lives with his daughter near Cirencester, and although increasingly physically frail, his mind and farming brain remain as sharp as ever and he spends his time reading and writing.
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