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Re: LEC vs. LBC

Subject: Re: LEC vs. LBC
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 07:40:30 -0500
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
References: <E452612E-DE22-11D8-9439-000D93ADE78C@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
With this in mind, what about the CKD cars sold to Australia? They were not
"built" in England, or Britain for that matter. Are those cars to be referred to
as LAC's...............
The "E" centric point of view needs to stop.
LOL!!!


"Larry B. Macy, Ph.D." wrote:

> 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.
>
> THis was from an English gentleman.
>
> Sorry, I think we need to be more aware of geo-political differences,
> THe US centric point of view needs to stop.
>
> Larry






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