"place an order for 260 of those 8V engines ol boy."
-lord rootes circa 1963
2009/8/5 Tom Hall <modtiger@comcast.net>
> At 06:15 PM 8/4/2009, you wrote:
> >I don't think Lord Rootes would have even known there was more than one
> >version of the engine.
>
> Come on people, were talking CEO's here. So it's possible that
> following his initial drive, Lord Rootes had his executive secretary
> attempt to place a call to Mr. Ford, who happened to be cruising in
> the Mediterranean. This is long before the days of cell phones and
> somehow, they made some level of connection. I think a simple "I'd
> like to buy some of your engines" followed by some level of agreement
> was about the extent of the conversation with the exception of
> perhaps how Mr. Ford was enjoying the cruse. I think "I'll have my
> people call your people" was the realistic limit of the technical exchange.
>
>
> Tom Hall
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