That's what I thought it would be. I worked through the 70s mania of forming conglomerate companies from sturdy British engineering companies. Hawker Siddeley group consolidated its range of diesel engines into the Lister and Petter brands.
Badge engineering ran rife though. Many a buyer came to Petter with "I've always bought Armstrong Siddeley and I'm buggered if I'm going to change to Petter now". So we had a range of crankcase castings and rocker box covers embossed with a variety of names from the past and they went away happy having paid significantly more for the same engine underneath. Chris On 3 July 2013 07:02, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > ????????? > > http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/07/02/Pentax-Ricoh-announces-name-change-but-what-will-it-mean-for-Pentax-brand > > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Walker > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 5:05 PM > > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: Pentax is history > > > How's that for a provocative subject line? :-) > > No more Pentax, now just Ricoh in the company name: > > http://www.pentaximaging.com/about/press/309 > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
