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MG Rover auctions its past (Mar 25)

To: morris@autox.team.net, riley@autox.team.net, mg-t@autox.team.net,
Subject: MG Rover auctions its past (Mar 25)
From: rfeibusch1@earthlink.net (Richard Feibusch)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 06:55:53 -0800
>From The Car Connection this morning:
 
MG Rover Auctions Its Past  
The vultures are circling, picking over the bones of what used to be  
Britain's last volume car manufacturer. MG Rover went to the wall last summer,  
and 
now all that remains - from the valuable to the trivial - is being split up.   
The Heritage Motor Centre, one of the U.K.'s most prestigious auto museums  
and based in Warwickshire, has revealed it's done a deal with Nanjing  
Automobile, the new owner of MG Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham. The 
move  will 
safeguard historically important artifacts, documents, and photographs. HMC  
already owns a wide range of archive material - including the last production  
car, a Rover 75 - which tells the story of the Longbridge site from its  
beginnings in 1905. The newly rescued items will complete the historic  record 
and 
form part of a special display later this year.  
Meanwhile, there's to be an auction of everything that belonged to MG Sport  
and Racing, the company's motorsport divisions. Taking place on March 25,  
there's more than 900 lots of cars, accessories, and workshop equipment. The  
sale includes race-prepared vehicles, support vans, and even an MGF concept car 
 
that's only ever been seen before at motor shows. There's also merchandise  
including clothing, mugs, keyrings, watches, slot-racing, and die cast model  
cars - even limited-edition bone china tea sets. Visit _www.wyleshardy.com_ 
(http://www.wyleshardy.com/)  for details of the event.  -Richard Yarrow 

Cheers, I guess,

Rick Feibusch
Venice Beach, CA


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