Warning - Humour
So ... awhile back, my uncle worked in a Datsun warehouse. To make a very
long story short, he had an accident one day when he inadvertantly bumped into
a shelf where they stored gearbox cogs. The shelf toppled and the contents
spilled off and near buried him. His suppervisor ran in pulled him out and
asked how he was. Shaken, he replied that he was fine, " ... though for
awhile there it was raining Datsun cogs ..."
Sorry! :)
Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
( only about 400 emails behind now )
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> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:01:57 +0100
> From: coudesluijs@chello.nl
> To: qualitas.jack@gmail.com
> CC: healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry
>
> Datsun/Nissan started with the assembly of CKD kits from Austin, not the
> most advanced automotive design at the time. When they started to build
> cars on their own accord they were technically very similar to the
> Austin products. I believe that engines and gearboxes from both makes
> were interchangable in the beginning.
> However Toyota produced cars of their own design in the thirties and
> there were others.
> Do not forget that there were considerable engineering skils well before
> the war. They produced some very advanced and feared warplanes and such.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> Jack Feldman schreef:
>> The statement "Don't forget it was the Japanese that borrowed the Brit's
>> technology in the
>> 60's.... and through reverse engineering ... All things are possible..."
>> isn't exactly correct. Not much reverse engineering was necessary. Austin
>> Motors helped the start of the Japanese industry.
>>
>> My very first car was and Austin A40 Somerset. I loved the car, and sold
it
>> when I returned to the US. I have a couple of books about Austin, and the
>> books are clear that Austin shared technology with the Japanese.
>>
>> Who would have thought they would be a threat.
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