Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Future R Plan
From: lambroving at worldnet.att.net (William G. Lamb, III)
Date: Tue Oct 19 20:01:30 2004

Simon,

Agreed. Been there. Rather amazed BMW let the son stay in
business after John died a couple of years ago. BMW were
so very intense in their pursuit of Mini trademark infringement
cases a few years back, they almost put ALL the classic Mini
restorers out of business. Old John Cooper must have had a
good lawyer and one water-tight license agreement!
<http://www.johncooper.co.uk/JohnCooperSite/pages/home/default.asp>

William

At 05:47 PM 10/19/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Well take a works S for a spin and you,ll find that it is no rover.
>best
>simon jessurun
>amsterdam
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "William G. Lamb, III" 
><lambroving@worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Future R Plan
>
>>The Mini Cooper is a pirated Rover almost totally
>>designed in the R&D Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire
>>with an engine from Diamler Chrysler Brazil! :-) The
>>body panels are stamped by Land Rover in Solihull
>>and it's built in the old Rover 75 line at Cowley in
>>Oxfordshire.
>>BMW have been taking it to the bank... :-(



>>At 11:14 AM 10/19/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>>
>>>and the Mini Cooper is a BMW ecetera ecetera ecetara