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To: "Allen Hefner" <Ajhsys@aol.com>, "MG List" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Safety Fast - no MG
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:17:06 -0500
Just so ya's know's In R&T this month is a Mini-Woody and the a short 
article about the shop that did it. Now to define the size of a Mini - 
Clint Eastwood owned one.

Larry

Nothing to do today.

At this exact moment in time 1/18/00 11:07 AM, Ajhsys@aol.com made the 
profound statement:

>In a message dated 1/17/00 6:49:16 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>bleckstein@mail.monmouth.com writes:
>
><< The slogan was first used by MG in 1929. It was devised by publicity
> manager for MG, George Tuck. The story goes that one day George was behind
> a bus in Oxford ( where the cars were still made before moving to Abingdon)
> when he noticed a sign on the bus which read "Safety First"  ( It seemed
> the bus had the latest innovation for the bus line, four wheel brakes!)
> George suggested it to Cecil Kimber, with the change "Safety Fast"  Kimber
> loved it as it also tied in with the recent Parliamentary election where
> Stanley Baldwin's Conservative government won on the slogan "Safety First"  
> 
> Since then, Safety Fast has always been used by the MG Company. ( And of
> course is the name of the magazine which is published by the MG Car Club 
>(UK)
> 
> More than you wanted to know?  Probably, but this is the crazy stuff that
> makes MG history so great. >>
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>Thank you, Mike.  This list is great.  Just ask and ye shall receive.
>
>Speedvision has been recycling the MG shows again, and last night I watched 
>part 1 of the Mini Cooper story.  Since Speedvision isn't listed in my local 
>newspaper, I have to catch the shows when I can.  I suppose they have their 
>own publication with all the schedules or I could get them from the web, but 
>I'm such a lazy creature in the winter!
>
>Allen Hefner
>SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
>'77 Midget
>'92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport


Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104

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