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What's it mean, anyway?

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: What's it mean, anyway?
From: wzehring@cmb.biosci.wayne.edu (Will Zehring)
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 94 07:20:18 EDT
Fellow fiends:

>With recent postings on the buying and selling of Daimlers and the Vanden 
Plas nameplate...
>
>1.      What does "Vanden Plas" mean (and what language is "vanden plas?")
>2.      How do you pronounce it?  "Plaaa" or Plasss" or "Plazzz?"
>
>And on a related note:  
>
>Daimler is a family name?  
>How did it become a name for a British and a German car? 
>How did it become associated with Jaguar? 
>What is the relation of any of these cars to the snarky-looking two seater 
from decades past, also with the Daimler moniker (and the fluted grill)?
>Who actually *made* that car?
>
>Any historians out there?
>
>Will "He don't know to much, don't he" Zehring
>
>



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