Re: [Mgs] Their back!!

["Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Hardly, he couldn't have done it on his own or without the agreement of 
Nuffield.  MG was a properly constituted company in its own right separate 
to 'The Morris Garages', which was why MG always said "MG doesn't stand for 
Morris Garages, it stands for itself".  If the tax people had thought they 
were the same there would have been tax penalties.

----- Original Message ----- 
> But it wasn't until 1923 when he'd became so tired of playing  second
> fiddle to William Morris's Morris Motors that Cecil Kimber introduced a 
> car that
> he dropped the Morris name and adopted the sportier name MG for Morris
> Garages and the rest like they say is History.
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