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In 1946, when Warren Avis scraped together $85,000 and started his eponymous company, rental-car agencies were all in downtown urban areas, making taxis the only way for business travelers and tourists to get from airports to their destinations.
A new alliance with England was sealed in the 1386 Treaty of Windsor; a year later João of Avis married Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt.
But the transformation of Avis into a plaything for theory-spouting speculators didn't really happen until the 1980s.
Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade.
But if the entrepreneurial spirit was willing, the flesh was apparently weak, because, less than two years later, Wesray sold Avis to its employees, who bought the company through what's called an Employee Stock Ownership Plan.