Perhaps a more conventional approach might have helped: the venture built only 200 cars in 1908-09.

Adjoining it, on the west, in 1913 an associate venture, the Explosives Loading Company, built a plant to fill bombs and shells.

Thursday signed a 50-50 joint venture to finance and build a new 400 million dollar tollway in Shenzhen.

VC4A has members in 159 countries and more than 200 ventures building businesses in 25 African countries.

He ventures through a valley, which opens into a broad plain where he finds a shining castle built by the sea.

The venture will build a plant capable of producing 50 million computer chips a year, NEC said.

The joint venture built 10,000 Ford and Mazda cars and trucks last year.

The new venture, to be called Hutchison Global Crossing, will build a high-speed fiber optic voice and data network.

The joint venture designed and built a new single-deck bus, the Leyland National.