Well thought through David.
However, I don't think you can make a serious claim the Jeep was a British
design and I would suggest Nippon Miata groups whilst acknowledging the
Miata to be generally based on British design would not claim it to be a
LBC. Bits of it may well be improved (and other bits not improved) copies
based on LBCs but it certainly sticks in my throat to say a Mazda is a
British car - just as it would to claim a Jeep is British.
Guy R Day
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lieb" <72spridget at gmail.com>
To: "Guy R Day" <grday at btinternet.com>; "Spridgets"
<spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Best Spridget for a condo owner
>> If you follow this argument then you can make a WWII Jeep to be derived
>> from
>> a British design!!
>
> Well, the original WWII Jeep was designed by the American Bantam
> Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, which had built Austin Sevens under
> license (like BMW had), so maybe there is a relationship there...
> David L
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