sentences:  Shute wrote in that six Couriers came back to the company when their operating company suspended operations but "shortly after that the Spanish Civil War broke out and the machines all sold immediately to various intermediaries for better than the original prices, and all went by devious routes to Spain".He had got a reputation as "unscrupulous" for resisting the auditors’ attempt to write their value down on the books; see Airspeed Ltd.In 1936 a gun-running organization, Union Founders' Trust, bought five Couriers with the intention of selling them for use by the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.