Re: Sinclair Research company plane??

From	"Brian-Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.sinclair
Subject	Re: Sinclair Research company plane??
Date	2017-05-13 02:06 +0100
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Well, I suspect it was some creative accounting for tax purposes.

Brian

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<mwichary@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBFud9zEoA

ItБ?Ts talked about in this interview, starting at 51:45.

On Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 9:21:11 AM UTC-8, Matt Rudge wrote:
> Maybe you can blame this on being forced unwillingly into the murky world
> of accountancy, but I've been really enjoying reading the Sinclair
> Research accounts that are published on Chris Smith's site at http://
> www.zxdesign.info/sinclair/
>
> It's interesting to see how they go from the mono-spaced type of standard
> accountant's reports in 1981/1982 to slick and professionally printed in
> 1983 and 1984, before back to the mono-space in 1985.
>
> One of the things that struck me was in the 1982 accounts - the purchase
> of a company aircraft for бё580,000! I'd never heard of a Sinclair
> Research aircraft before. I went trawling the Internet and all the on-
> line Spectrum magazine archives, but couldn't find any mention of it.
>
> Maybe they're a fairly standard thing to buy when you've just turned over
> бё27m in your second year of trading and just given yourself a бё1m bonus,
> but I'd have thought some reference to it would have appeared somewhere.
>
> Anyone know what kind of an aircraft it was? Or even heard of it?
>
> -- 
> Matt

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