The Overland car, volume seller from John North Willys‘s Willys-Overland Corporation, held a steady second place to Ford during the ‘teens, but sagged measurably in the early 1920s. So in 1926, Willys came up with an inexpensive car, the Whippet. Small and swift, like the canine whose name it bore, the Whippet caught on quickly,….
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Serendipity: n. An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
“They were always making discoveries, by accident and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”
Horace Walpole, The Three Princes of Serendip
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Horace Walpole, The Three Princes of Serendip
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