[ROVERNET - UK] Classic names are part of Tata deal

[Eric Russell]

Most excellent!
Eric

--- David Walker <concinnity at woosh.co.nz> wrote:

> And 
>
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080327/COPY01/803239/1193
> 
> seems to confirm this more explicitly
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Russell" <p6rovers at yahoo.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Classic names are part
> of Tata deal
> 
> 
> > That seems to be confirmed in this article:
> >
>
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080325/tuk-british-car-marques-sold-to-tata-6323e80.html>
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > --- Geoff Kirkpatrick <britcarnut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> >From the Arcane Autos list: confirmation that
> Tata
> >> does indeed now own the Rover name.
> >>
> >> Geoff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> "This is the final test of a gentleman: his
> respect
> >> for those who can be of no possible service to
> him."
> >> - William Lyon Phelps
> >>
> >>
> >
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> >>
> >>             Classic names are part of Tata deal
> >>
> >> Tony Lewin
> >>
> >> Automotive News | March 27, 2008 - 6:46 am EST
> >> Tata Motors will get the right use three classic
> >> British auto-brand names as
> >> part of its $2.3 billion deal to buy Jaguar and
> Land
> >> Rover.
> >>
> >> Included in the deal are the Rover name and the
> >> Jaguar-owned names of Daimler
> >> and Lanchester.
> >> Ford bought the rights to the Rover brand name
> from
> >> BMW in September 2006 for
> >> an undisclosed sum to ensure no other automaker
> >> could use it and cause
> >> confusion with the Land Rover brand.
> >>
> >> "We acquired the Rover trademark in the interests
> of
> >> protecting Land Rover,"
> >> said Ford of Europe spokesman John Gardiner. "So
> >> it's also in the interests
> >> of
> >> the new owner of Land Rover to have it."
> >>
> >> BMW obtained ownership of the Rover name when it
> >> bought the Rover group in
> >> 1994. In 2006, BMW refused a request from China's
> >> SAIC to use the Rover brand
> >> name under license. SAIC had bought some assets
> of
> >> the ailing MG Rover group
> >> and now builds cars called Roewes in China.
> >>
> >> Jaguar acquired the rights to sell cars badged as
> >> Daimlers in 1960 from the UK
> >> Daimler car company that was founded in 1896 and
> >> licensed by Gottlieb Daimler
> >> to use his internal combustion engine. The UK
> >> Daimler car company also owned
> >> the Lanchester brand name.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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