I vote for Paul's answer! At least he put some thought into it.
Allen Hefner
SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
'77 Midget
'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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In a message dated 10/28/99 4:20:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
paul.hunt1@virgin.net writes:
<< For my part, I am now firmly in the 'MG' camp. Not because of a loyal
desire
for it to be so, but through a study of the evidence. The source of the
greater part of this evidence is David Knowles incredibly detailed book - MG
The Untold Story. David relates how Wolseley and MG were owned personally by
Lord Nuffield until he was convinced to merge it with Morris Motors in 1935.
He also states that, once part of Morris Motors and all design was being
carried out at Cowley, the chassis and engine number prefixes and suffixes
for Wolseley variants were 'W' and for MG were 'G'. It doesn't take much of
a leap of faith to assume that 'M' was already being used by Morris (hence
the 'G' for MG, since there wasn't much choice for anything else). I would
also say it would be extremely unlikely for someone to go to the bother of
devising a 'logo' to mark the merger of Wolseley and Morris, but to ignore
MG which was merged at the same time. Finally, there never was a 'Morris
Wolseley Group' as an organisation, just 'Morris Motors Ltd'. >>
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