[Mgs] Origin of speckled hen?

[rocknatural at gmail.com (The Roxter)]

On 5/2/2011 2:59 AM, Paul Hunt wrote:
> 'Speckled' from either a show car painted in gold fleck and (not 
> surprisingly) never sold, or a factory runabout spattered with paint 
> spots depending to which account you read.  Any number of references 
> to this - 
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=old+speckled+un
>
> Difficult to see a reason why a car would have been called a 
> 'speckled hen', and when naming a beer for the 50th anniversary it 
> would have made no sense to anyone else to call it 'Old Speckled 'Un'.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I've never heard "Old Speckled One" before.  Every
>> reference to this car I've read refers to it as
>> "Old Specked Hen." 
http://www.oldspeckledhen.co.uk/history.html

-Rocky Frisco
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