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It was in early 1933 that two of AB’s young men, Charles Fenn and Jeff Collins, staged the nearest approach to a successful revolt that ever took place in the Besse office. AB went off for a tour of his African agencies. Before leaving he told Collins to buy a dhow that was coming on the market, and named the price. There was unexpected competition and Collins had to go above the figure given: to miss the dhow would have been thought a major calamity. The deal was reported by letter to AB.
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© 1986 Estate of David Footman and St Antony’s College, Oxford
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Footman, D. (1986). The Title Deeds. In: Antonin Besse of Aden. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07731-1_14
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