Denise "mostly perfect" Thorpe wrote:
> Flying in the face of a British tradition where car companies are named after
> a person (e.g., Daimler, Wolesley, Morgan, Fairthorpe (my favorite), Austin/
> Jensen Healey, Rolls-Royce, Humber, Hillman, etc. (forget Lotus and TVR)) they
> chose to name a car company after a car dealership. ...
>
I happen to know that TVR was taken from a persons name - TreVoR Wilkinson -
the creator of the first TVRs which were build (I think) in his own workshop
for his own use.
Interesting Huh!
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