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My item which talked about Ford’s long history in India had Bhaskarendra Rao sending me an Oakes Delgairns & Co had its roots in a general goods stores established in 1843 by William Oakes and partners on Popham’s Broadway. By 1912, Spencer’s had begun eyeing a takeover of Oakes & Co., its J O Robinson-led Board “unanimous of opinion that in acquiring the control and thus preventing it from passing into the hands of others who might prove stronger competitors in the future than Oakes & Co Ltd had been in the past” might be in its best interest. Spencer’s, not long afterwards, decided to bring to a close its motoring venture and rented its motor department premises, 199-200 Mount Road, to Ford. With Woodroffe’s machinery and property on Mount Road, George Oakes was big enough to handle a territorial agency for Ford, which, in the early 1940s, had a relook at its sales strategy and decided to appoint territorial agents.