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

[David Walker]

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>
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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
>>
>>
> *******************************************************************
>>
>>             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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