On Fri, 5 Jan 1996 bleckstein@shell.monmouth.com wrote:
> John, welcome to the MOWAG wars. Your name and authority has been used along
> with Mike Allison as support for the"G means MG" group. The opposition
> maintained MOWAG meant Morris,Wolseley GROUP . It appears that the MOWAG came
> into use after 1936 when MG was sold by Wm. Morris (Lord Nuffield) to Morris
> Motors and the Nuffield Organisation was formed. Parts common to Morris,
> Wolseley and MG were marked MOWAG and began to appear on the TA. I'm still
> waiting for a concession speech from the opposition which I will accept with
> grace.
You're a lot more graceful about it than I, Mike. My interest in things
M.G. goes back to the mid 1950's (yes, I was a kid at the time - still
am), and back then the accepted lore was that MOWOG stood for MOrris
WOlseley mG. I don't know where Will "The Revisionist" Zehring came up
with his MOrris WOlsely Group theory, but I've never heard that version
until he brought it up here.
Time to move on...
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