On Jul 25, 2004, at 7:36 AM, Guy Weller wrote:
Gotta admit, this was my reaction at first as well. But you see this
was from the son of a fellow that was bored and raised in England. And
confirmed by a dude that spent many a long year working on MG's in
"Bloody Old". Now both the MG dude (more than 30 years, and some of you
know him) and the father of the boy (who first raised the question)
suggested that LEC "should" be correct. Now whether we go down that
path is all up to you, after all, I am the one that spent years calling
my first wife SU.
Larry
(Hey Guy, iff'n I can't get yer goat this way, what chance do we
colonists have??)
> This is nuts!
> England is part of Britain, so it is quite correct to call them LBCs.
> OK, they wern't made all over Britain, but then they wern't made all
> over
> England either!
> Maybe you might want to call them LABs (Little Abingdon Cars), but
> just a
> minute ... they wern't made in every part of Abingdon, just in the
> factory.
> So LAFB (Little Abingdon Factoy Cars) ??
>
> Guy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry B. Macy, Ph.D." <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
> To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:10 AM
> Subject: LEC vs. LBC
>
>
>> It was pointed out to me the other day that we err in calling our cars
>> LBC's. Yes we have Little Cars, no, they are not actually British.
>> Britain actually consists of England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland. None
>> of
>> our cars (or for that matter, few cars of any type) were built in
>> Britain, per se. They were built in England. So the proper term is
>> LEC.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
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