[Fot] Standard connections

[michael cook]

Just to clarify a bit:
 
The Nash (or Hudson) Metropolitan was built by Austin at the Longbridge plant and had a BMC 4-cyl, 1500, I believe. It was also marketed in the UK and Europe.Trouble is, it wasn't a sports car or an economy sedan so it was trying to create a new market niche and never penetrated.
 
I don't know much about the potential Standard Triumph and Nash project but it could have had a lot of similarities to British Leyland. Nash was in financial trouble all through the '50s and joining up with Hudson and Packard didn't help. By 1964, American Motors was taking a whole new direction with Rambler as it's only product name. Nash, Hudson and Packard were all gone. Think what a drain AMC might have been on Standard-Triumph's finances even before ST sale went to hell in 1961.
 
Mike Cook



From: BillDentin at aol.comDate: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:07:29 -0400To: standardtriumph at btinternet.com; spreiss at verizon.net; fot at autox.team.netSubject: Re: [Fot] Standard connections

I thought I read some where that Nash (later, American Motors) was giving engines to Donald Healey, when he couldn't strike a deal with Chrysler, Ford or GM.  And then, of course, American Motors later offered a little Metropolitan, which was sure Herald like in many aspects, and I think it had a British engine.
 
Bill Dentinger
 
 

In a message dated 8/30/2008 6:05:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, standardtriumph at btinternet.com writes:

Not the US Big Three but in the late 1950's there was some 'exploration' undertaken on a joint manufacturing project with Nash Rambler. As I recall the concept was for the Rambler to be built in the UK in Right and Left drive variants using as much Standard-Triumph componentry as possible. Nash wanted to use ST's European and overseas distribution because its own was allegedly not too brilliant. Jeez, NR must have been pretty desperate as ST's own network outside the UK wasn't outstanding. Can't recall the detail of what Nash were going to do in the US to reciprocate, but I *think* it was to open the whole of its US and Canadian dealer networks for the ST sports car range - and possibly even make them under licence. The licensing opportunity was quite sensible because Nash (in theory) had far greater output capability than ST in the UK could ever hope to have.


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