Robert,
I don't care what others may say, I got a chuckle out of that.
Mel Brunet
HBJ8L/39749
----- Original Message -----
From: <robertduquette@sympatico.ca>
To: "Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Start of the Japanese Auto Industry- Humour
> 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 )
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>> 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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