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Re: MOWOG?!?!

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: MOWOG?!?!
From: Ajhsys@aol.com
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:18:18 EDT
I vote for Paul's answer!  At least he put some thought into it.

Allen Hefner
SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport

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In a message dated 10/28/99 4:20:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
paul.hunt1@virgin.net writes:

<< For my part, I am now firmly in the 'MG' camp. Not because of a loyal 
desire
 for it to be so, but through a study of the evidence. The source of the
 greater part of this evidence is David Knowles incredibly detailed book - MG
 The Untold Story. David relates how Wolseley and MG were owned personally by
 Lord Nuffield until he was convinced to merge it with Morris Motors in 1935.
 He also states that, once part of Morris Motors and all design was being
 carried out at Cowley, the chassis and engine number prefixes and suffixes
 for Wolseley variants were 'W' and for MG were 'G'. It doesn't take much of
 a leap of faith to assume that 'M' was already being used by Morris (hence
 the 'G' for MG, since there wasn't much choice for anything else). I would
 also say it would be extremely unlikely for someone to go to the bother of
 devising a 'logo' to mark the merger of Wolseley and Morris, but to ignore
 MG which was merged at the same time. Finally, there never was a 'Morris
 Wolseley Group' as an organisation, just 'Morris Motors Ltd'. >>


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