[Mgs] Interesting discovery

Dan DiBiase dan.dibiase at gmail.com
Fri Apr 26 09:10:02 MDT 2019


Well, I think it's unusual in that VB is billed as a competitor to Moss,
right? Not like a local parts supplier that keeps a supply of Moss (or VB)
sourced parts for local pick-up...

Dan D
Central NJ USA
http://dandibiase.cbintouch.com/


On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 6:13 PM Richard Lindsay via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net>
wrote:

> Makes sense. Just hadn't seen it before.
>
> You worked in Borneo? I worked in Brunei. Small world.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 5:02 PM Barrie Robinson <barrob at bell.net> wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> That's not an unusual practice.  Many do that all the time.  My local
>> Brit garage is set up as an MG parts supplier but gets most of his parts
>> from Moss.  The Little British Car company do the same.   When I sold
>> Evinrude outboard motors in Borneo we used to buy Mercury spare parts
>> because they were cheaper than the prestigious Evinrude - they were both
>> the same engine only branded differently.
>> Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/25/2019 5:43 PM, Richard Lindsay via Mgs wrote:
>>
>> Hey Friends,
>>    I just received a shipment from Victoria British. Its a TR6 coolant
>> pipe from the water pump back to the rear of the head, for the heater.
>> The fun bit is that the V.B. 2-792 part number sticker was placed over
>> a Moss 865-080 part number sticker! That's a fun if puzzling
>> discovery.
>>
>> Rick
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