Barrie,
Forget not race cars. British race car engineers, designers and
constructors do not have a match save perhaps for a little patch in
Maranello. And this from an American.
Jim Brown
Houston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barrie Robinson" <barrier@bconnex.net>
To: "John T. Blair" <jblair@exis.net>; <british-cars@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: TR7 -- Why are LBC carbs so complicated?
> John,
>
> I agree with most of what you say. I was continually frustrated by the
> managers/workers conflict in the 50s and 60s. But it is interesting to
> compare the products of the USA with those of Britain. What USA cars
would
> you stack against the Rolls Royce, Bristol, AC, XK120-150, Daimler, Alvis,
> Lagonda, the Mini, etc?
>
> At 06:51 PM 2/18/01 -0500, John T. Blair wrote:
> >At 10:22 AM 2/18/01 -0700, John McEwen wrote:
> >
> > >The difference is engineering. There were few if any professional
> > >automotive engineers involved with the automobile industry in Britain
> > >during the formative years, a situation which generally persisted until
the
> > >end of the automobile industry in Britain.....
> >
> >John,
> >
> >I tried to email you off-line but for some reason, my ISP wouldn't
> >accept your email address.
> >
> >
> >Excellent!!! A great read. Have you thought about writing a book?
> >And the only major independents are still in the UK I think, Morgan,
> >Marcos, and possibly TVR.
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
> >Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
> >
> >48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
> > 75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
> >
> >Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan
> >Bricklin: www.bricklin.org
>
>
>
> Regards
> Barrie Robinson
> barrier@bconnex.net
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