Re: Goodbye Clyde, hello EDI rail!

["comtrain" <comtrain@optusnet.com.au>]

My 90 model Coomodore has no mention of  Holden, on the car, or in the
manuals etc.The badge on the grill is even missing [from new]
My Brothers 92 Version is again A "Holden" the Lion reapplied to the grill.
It seems GM tried to get rid of Holden, and failed. At the time Ford was
slaughtering them in the sales, with a car which was arguably outdated,
unreliable, and only half the build quality, both GM and Toyota were
maintaining at the time.
Rod
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"James Brook" <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Jane Coyle and Roger Lewis wrote:
> >
> > James Brook wrote:
> > > Imagine
> > > the uproar if Holden suddenly became "GM Australia".
> >
> > It's funny you should write that James.  Holden became part of GM many
> > decades ago and operated as GMHA until the mid-90s when they changed
> > their name back to Holden.  Holden is just a badge... (insert flames
> > here).
>
> This is actually what I was referring to because Holden is a famous name
> that is a part of GM. In recent years Clyde was basically a badge for
> EDI. If you look at the sign out the front of their factory at Somerton,
> it says "Clyde Engineering, A division of Evans Deakin Industries". The
> re-naming of Clyde to EDI rail is similar to the hypothetical situation
> of Holden changing their name to GM Australia and getting rid of the
> Holden name.
>
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> - James Brook -
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