Re: SER1 Land-Rover "family tree"... (Range Rover origins?)

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Mark Strangways wrote:
> Ian,
> 
> I meant that horrible 3 wheeled thing, available in some of the "Land Rover Gear" catalogues - I am not sure if the rest of the World will have seen it, so may not know what we are talking about, in which case - apologies from me.....
No, I knew what you ment (hell, I've even seen them "in the wild"

I was making the joke about the bike deriving from the pushchair, and 
why it was developed: the pushchair is for wee kids, so the bike was 
developed for the customers who had grown out of the pushchair...

(and yes, it was/is a tacky marketeering thing...)


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