Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 50mm f1.5 Nokton question
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 23:53:26 -0500

BMW announced today that they are selling off the part of the Rover car
company in the UK.  (Actually, they had to PAY a local group of investors
to take the "English Patient" off their hands.)  Land Rover will stay with
BMW.  The neat Viking-ship logo and the Rover name are to be retained by
BMW, so the new company will call itself "MG".

I shudder as much at this as I do at what Cosina has done to the
Voigtlander heritage.  Admittedly, MG, in its dying days, was part of
British Leyland, as was Rover, but MG came from the Austin/Morris side of
the house, and its roots are NOT to be found in the Rover plant, Rover
coming from the Triumph/Standard side of things.  This is roughly akin to
Ford deciding to rename itself DeSoto, or Chryler to rename itself Edsel.

Now, THAT misnaming offends this lad deeply:  I learned to drive in an
honest Rover 2000TC, back in Marin County in the Summer of Love, "when it
was joy to be alive, and to be young was very heaven".

Marc

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