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No range anxiety anymore & keeps you super fit

A week or so ago, I was teaching 'Vietnamisation' to a bunch of Year 11's and they were really struggling with this cartoon.....



Then it dawned - none of them had any idea or experience of what a 'wind up toy' was! Once I explained, all became clear!

Dusting off the designs for a new four seater?

No Doubt Brian of this parish will know more...

Maybe not Murray, he cancelled his Super 3 order as did a couple of other stalwarts due to the changes in management hierarchy - Vipers son works there so maybe he knows

Well I can't reveal my sources but here is the leading design complete key power supply device

So do I Peter. My 1990 plus4 does everything I need it to do. Older Morgan owners will remember when a Morgan was cheaper to buy than a MG.
To me this continuing rise of prices will kill off Morgan. As still a motorcyclist I could not afford a Italian motorcycle when younger and here we go again.
To me they need a basic cheap car for the younger generation to enjoy like many others of Morgan ownership. Sadly this will not happen as it would appear some people seem to want to change the overall look of the car and produce something far out of the reach of a normal working man/woman enthusiast.
I hope the company will survive as over the years my wife and I toured Europe and the UK to be told many many times What a lovely car.

I'm going to add my twopenn'orth and say that I think MMC should have a very basic entry car based upon the trad chassis with no frills from the factory. In addition they also need something along the lines of the Aero 8 based upon the CX chassis. I can't see the point of some supercar type design as there is no way they could compete in that sector using someone else's drivetrain. Discuss.

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I have lost contact with him now but for years I had a Vietnamese friend who had arrived in Australia as one of the so-called "boat people" at the end of the Vietnamese war. After years of work he buit up quite a nice small business in computers (it may have helped that his grandmother had been the owner of a merchant bank in Saigon). In any case when things had calmed down in Vietnam and he was allowed to return to visit friends and relatives he went back to Vietnam for a vist. When he returned he told me that while he was there he had been offered a new factory, rent and tax free, if he set up some form of manufacturing and employed local people. He then went to Taiwan where he purchased a second hand assembly line and signed a contract for the supply of un-assembled televisions (knock-down kits?). A year later he returned and installed a second assembly line.
At a certain point I organised a container load of photocopiers for him (I was a manager in a well known Japanese company). He told me that when the container arrived it "unloaded itself". Buyers queued up with cash in hand, paid, and took their copier directly from the container. In less than an hour he had an empty container.
I asked him if he thought that after all the war, deaths etc., nothing had really changed except the people in power and he agreed that as far as most people were concerned life had got back to normal.
Certainly now Vietnam trades with the whole world; if I look at various items of clothing and shoes that I have, not to mention household items, I would find several "Made in Vietnam".
So in the end perhaps "Vietnamisation" actually worked.