[Roadsters] Interesting historical note

Fri May 13 13:51:37 MDT 2016

Don’t know about the L series, but I can tell you that the U20 cylinder head was a design licensed by Prince Motors from Mercedes that Nissan inherited when they acquired Prince in the mid 60s

Jerry Krakauer

SRL311 00099

From: Datsun-roadsters [mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Gary McCormick via Datsun-roadsters
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 1:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Interesting historical note

Isn't the L16/L24 of PL510, PL521/240Z fame based on, or a licensed version of, a Mercedes design?

Gary McCormick

San Jose, CA

’70 2000 SRL311-13921

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Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 9:04 AM
Subject: [Roadsters] Interesting historical note

I have sometimes heard Nissan/Datsun criticized by Euro-centric car enthusiasts for simply copying British designs. This was somewhat true after WWII, when Datsun was making Austin clones under license.

But I just ran across an interesting note in a Car and Driver Web article about BMW, which began with airplanes prior to WWI, then switched to motorcycles after the war. Here’s the quote:

“1928: To enter the car business, BMW bought the Dixi Automobil Werke, which was building Austin Sevens under license.”

Gordon Glasgow

Renton, WA

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