correct.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 4:24 AM, <Editorgary@aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/24/09 5:48:51 PM, healeys-request@autox.team.net
> writes:
>
>
> >
> > Gary, my understanding has been that the special arrangement enjoyed by
> > the
> > Donald Healey Motor Company with BMC (that gave DMH exclusive rights to
> > market the cars to U.S. forces in the UK) applied only to Austin-Healeys.
> > Do you (or anyone else) know if that is so or not?
> >
>
> No exhaustive research here, but five minutes with Donald Healey/Peter
> Garnier My World of Cars found this (p. 109):
> Part of the Austin deal was that we should have the sale conscession in the
> UK for Austin-Healey cars, that we alone should sell the first batch. As
> well as the small showroom-cum-drawing office we built at The Cape, we
> opened
> a showroom at the Austin servce Centre in West London. There was so much
> pressure from the big Austin distributors, however, that Austin finally
> persuaded us to allow the Austin-Healey to go out through their normal
> Austin
> outlets, in return for which they gave us an Austin franchise. My son Brian
> took
> over the retail side." (emphasis mine)
> The period he's referring to, of course, is 1952-1954. So from the very
> beginning of the Austin-Healey relationship, Donald Healey Motor Company
> had an
> Austin franchise, which would very soon have become a BMC franchise.
> I didn't search other books, but I know I can find a picture from later on,
> of the converted movie theatre in Warwick which DHMCo acquired as their
> retail showroom when they expanded beyond The Cape.
> I'm sure other people on this list can confirm that the Healey family had a
> BMC franchise.
> Gary
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