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

[Eric Russell]

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
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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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