sentences:  However, it developed many large interwar suburbs of both private and council housing, which were relatively isolated from industrial buildings.The city was also at the centre of Britain's car industry, with many carmakers being based at different locations in Coventry, although many of these factories had switched to help supply the war effort.There were 17 small raids on Coventry by the "Luftwaffe" during the Battle of Britain between August and October 1940 during which around 198 tons of bombs fell.