Re: Rootes Museum

[drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>]

I am curious as to why you woould say that? According to my records, the 
200 mph car was built by the Sunbeam Motor Co, Wolverhampton E. Was this 
not Lord Rootes Company then? This was March 1927 on the beach at 
Daytona driven by Sir Henry Segrave.


mayf, out in Pahrump

RootesRooter@aol.com wrote:

>Hmmm.  I suspect the few living enthusiasts of the original Sunbeam  company 
>would bristle at the suggestion that the 200-mph Sunbeam in the  Beaulieu 
>museum had anything to do with Rootes...