{"id":5785,"date":"2014-03-04T19:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T19:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=5785"},"modified":"2014-05-06T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:01:08","slug":"king-amanullah-at-metropolitan-vickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/king-amanullah-at-metropolitan-vickers\/","title":{"rendered":"King Amanullah in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><q>Among Royal visitors received at the works &#8230; King Amanullah of Afghanistan in 1928, when to the particular disappointment of the work-girls with their machines decorated in Afghan colours his beautiful Queen Souriya was kept away by indisposition.<\/q><\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gracesguide.co.uk\/Metropolitan-Vickers_Electrical_Co_1899-1949_by_John_Dummelow:_1919-1929#SOCIAL_ACTIVITIES\">Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co 1899-1949<\/a>. John Dummelow, Grace&#8217;s Guide.<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On 28 March 1928 King Amanullah was in Manchester. As well as visiting Metropolitan-Vickers, he sailed on the Manchester ship canal, had lunch with the Mayor, visited two cotton mills and went down the Bradford Colliery Co&#8217;s Bradford pit.<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-5785-1' id='fnref-5785-1' onclick='return fdfootnote_show(5785)'>1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/manchesterarchiveplus\/5936762315\/player\/2b2c798863\" height=\"500\" width=\"293\"  frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nKing Amanullah (holding lamp) and a narrow gauge railway at the Bradford colliery. <\/p>\n<div class='footnotes' id='footnotes-5785'>\n<div class='footnotedivider'><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li id='fn-5785-1'> Afghan King At Manchester, The Times, London, England, 29 March 1928 <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-5785-1'>&#8617;<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Royal visitors received at the works &#8230; King Amanullah of Afghanistan in 1928, when to the particular disappointment of the work-girls with their machines decorated in Afghan colours his beautiful Queen Souriya was kept away by indisposition. Source: Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co 1899-1949. John Dummelow, Grace&#8217;s Guide. On 28 March 1928 King Amanullah was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[257,258,194],"class_list":["post-5785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-amam","tag-metropolitan-vickers","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5785"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5881,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5785\/revisions\/5881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}