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Mr. Linsky BusTalk's Offical Welcoming Committee
Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 5071 Location: BRENTWOOD, CA. - WOODMERE, N.Y.
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:26 pm Post subject: 'THE GM ROLLS ROYCE CONNECTION' |
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Taken from a 1940 issue of National Geographic Magazine we see a very interesting ad for the Buick Limited of that year in which they tell of sharing pieces of their engineering prowess with an English company that builds the world's finest car and, while they don't mention the manufacturer by name, you know that it must be Rolls Royce!
While the Rolls Royce was the best and even the handsomest thing on four wheels (at least until BMW got hold of it and changed it into the ugly caricature of its former self that we see today), the company and British engineering in general found it difficult to keep up with its American counterparts especially in the areas of air conditioning and transmission development that took place in the late fifties and early sixties.
I was very surprised, when I had occasion to open the hood of a 1963 RR owned by friends of my parents, to find a Harrison (GM) air conditioning compressor, a GM Dual Range Hydramatic Transmission and even the very same automatic radio antenna used on Cadillacs.
Actually, U.S. air conditioning in British transportation came as less of a surprise to me when considering that the Cunard White Star Liner Mauretania that my family and I cruised to the West Indies on in 1958 was equipped by Carrier.
Photo courtesy of '4509bus' and is available at eBay as item # 371221935444.
Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York
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