[Tigers] Sunbeam History

[genepadgett at comcast.net]

Michael, very nice commentary and additional perspective. Thanks for sharing. 

Best regards, Gene 

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From: "michael king" <michael.s.king at gmail.com> 
To: genepadgett at comcast.net 
Cc: "Bob H" <tgrrr at meadowcrk.com>, "Tigers" <tigers at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 6:02:41 AM 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Sunbeam History 

On 02/01/2012, genepadgett at comcast.net <genepadgett at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 
> Interesting comment at the end: "In July 1935 S.T.D. was purchased by Rootes 
> Securities, who had no interest in high quality cars, only volume 
> production." 
> 
> I am guessing Rootes Securities must have been investment bankers. We can 
> all read into that what we choose. At least the company survived for another 
> 30 years and gave us our beloved Tigers! 
> 
> Gene 

Not sure if they were investment bankers, think it might just have 
been the rootes brothers company.. they are probably reffering to the 
fact the rootes bros built volume production cars, hillmans.. Sunbeam 
pre rootes were high end cars, twin cam 16 vlave 4cyl and twin cam 
8's, hihg end sports motors... talbot built fantastic sports cars the 
105 series were very compotent... rootes bought the comanies and 
merged them, badge engineering them onto hillman based products.. much 
the same with singer.. high end sports and tourers.. to hillman based 
cars.. though the first singers under rootes still used the OHC singer 
engine.. that soon made way for rootes OHV motors.... 

despite all that.. i still like my rootes derived cars... even though 
they may not be as exotic or high spec.. 

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Regards 

Michael King