Fw: Guardian Unlimited: 'People sort through lots like conspirators in a black market' - welcome to the end of MG

["Mike Hughes" <hughes.c.m@worldnet.att.net>]

Spotted this on the Guardian Unlimited site and thought it might be of
interest.

- Mike Hughes  -t?t-

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go to http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1739350,00.html

'People sort through lots like conspirators in  a black market' - welcome to 
the end of MG
Assets of once-great British car marque go under the hammer
Adam Nicolson
Saturday March 25 2006
The Guardian


"There is something obscurely shameful about the way MG racing is coming to
an end. After the collapse of MG Rover last year, the racing arm of the
organisation went into administration too and since then the receivers,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, have been trying to find someone to buy it. No one
did, and now the time for dispersal has come. The last of the cars is being
sold off this morning, and a tradition of that began in 1923 will be snuffed
out..."

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