G'day Jim
How I loath pedants, they always seem to have a smarmy look about them.
Actually when Singer put it up Hitler in the one and only Olympic car
race it was a separate company, with a very long history of producing
sporting cars and not part of the Rootes Group. There was no connection
with the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
The Rootes Brothers (Rootes Group) assumed control of Singer in December
1955 when shareholders voted to accept the takeover offer with the
assurance that Singer name would remain and the marque ideals would be
kept alive.
Hoo Roo
Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia
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From: JBrown5093@aol.com [mailto:JBrown5093@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, 2 September 2004 11:17 AM
To: JBrown5093@aol.com; healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Olympic cars-triv
The answer, in case anyone was just dying to know, was a 1936 Singer
Lemans
(a Roots group car) that won the one and only Olympic car race.
Apparently
Hitler wanted to also showcase his superior cars and had the same
success that he
had showcasing his human athletes. In addition I believe the driver was
a
woman named Haig. Score one for the LBC. Jim Brown BJ8, BT7
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