Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Ford & F1 Jaguar
From: lowiemanuel at yahoo.ca (Emanuel Lowi)
Date: Sun Sep 19 14:10:38 2004

William G. Lamb, III wrote:

> Jag's
> heritage is around 
> Coventry. Closing that plant is a real slap.
> 
> At the moment Ford have threatened to close Solihull
> and move Land Rover 
> production elsewhere. This plan appears to have been
> averted. I never 
> seriously believed it anyway since Ford just
> invested $1,600,000,000 in the 
> T-5 line there for the next generation of Land
> Rover-designed products. 
> Still..., were Solihull to be closed, the "real"
> Land Rover would be dead. 
> It was a huge struggle to get Ford to accept Land
> Rover's new platform 
> which is not "shared". The Solihull workers don't
> make as much trouble as 
> the Coventry, Longbridge types do either. 
> 

This is basically what I've been saying about
Portuguese Leicas for years. And that opinion has
earned me nothing but grief here. Go figure.

Emanuel Lowi
Montreal

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