[Tigers] Rootes Group Employee

Marc James Small marcsmall at comcast.net
Mon Mar 9 19:36:38 MST 2009


At 10:27 PM 3/9/2009, Joe Brown wrote:
 >Hmm, my Tiger came from Cliff Meyer Imports in Kenosha Wisconsin.  Any
 >relation to H. J. Meyer?  Maybe not.  Are there any interesting stories
 >about Cliff Meyer Imports?
 >
 >This got me thinking.  How did the dealers get the cars?  Did they come by
 >boat to New York and were then trucked to the dealerships?
 >

The US Agency for Rootes was in Connecticut, I 
believe.  The cars came by canoe to New York and 
then by truck to Connecticut for further shipment 
to the dealers.  When I was in grad school in the 
early 1960's, I met some guys who had worked at 
the Rootes agency, whose name I forget, though Curt Meinel would know.

Marc


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