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Re: [Tigers] Rootes Group Employee

To: "'Marc James Small'" <marcsmall@comcast.net>,
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Rootes Group Employee
From: "Stu Brennan" <stubrennan@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:47:45 -0400
Isn't it in one of the books, BON probably, that there were a couple
ports of entry for Sunbeams?  I seem to remember Boston being one, and
another one or two south somewhere.

Stu



-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Marc James Small
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:37 PM
To: Joe Brown; awtiger@cox.net; tigers@autox.team.net;
sunbeamtiger@prodigy.net
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Rootes Group Employee


At 10:27 PM 3/9/2009, Joe Brown wrote:
 >Hmm, my Tiger came from Cliff Meyer Imports in Kenosha Wisconsin.  Any
>relation to H. J. Meyer?  Maybe not.  Are there any interesting stories
>about Cliff Meyer Imports?  >  >This got me thinking.  How did the
dealers get the cars?  Did they come by  >boat to New York and were then
trucked to the dealerships?  >

The US Agency for Rootes was in Connecticut, I =

believe.  The cars came by canoe to New York and =

then by truck to Connecticut for further shipment =

to the dealers.  When I was in grad school in the =

early 1960's, I met some guys who had worked at =

the Rootes agency, whose name I forget, though Curt Meinel would know.

Marc


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