Re: Morgan IS a boutique car producer, and there is nothing wrong w

[Charles Hill]

Ray, Just a couple of comments in reply: First Morgan wasn't producing 4-wheelers when the M was in production. The first 4/4 wasn't until 1936. Anyway, 3200 cars in 4 years is only 800 cars per year. You are only confirming what I said before. This whole thread started when someone said that Morgan was only an assembler, not a manufacturer. I contend that Morgan makes more of their car than MG. Just because MG had an inside with the corporation that owns them getting parts made makes no difference. They, MG, still didn't make the part. They just put it on the car. As for the suspension, I understand that Morgan buys a lot of raw forgings for the suspension among other things and machines them in house. Regards, Charles Hill

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[scooter19392003]

Guys I am absolutely amazed at where this has gone. When I said Morgan was a boutique producer it was not meant in a derogatory sense. They build fine cars, but they are essentially a bespoke producer for a select client base (The cars are essentially built to the customers specs and a build date assigned). Any organisation that has delivery times of 6 months as Morgan does cannot claim to be a volume producer. MG used in house parts or parts that were manufactured specifically for MG - such as the MGB bodyshells - no one else used them. To claim that these are outside parts is rather silly. Thats like saying Mustangs are built using Ford parts. MG's were built using parts made for MG - in house (BMC, British Leyland, MG-Rover Group), or by contractors and they built over 500,000 MGB's and some 70,000 MGF's. We are comparing apples and pears, mass production to hand built. MG Rover is gone and there is now no British owned volume producer period. Enough already Aubrey TC 9298

--- In mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com, Charles Hill wrote: > Ray, > > Just a couple of comments in reply: > > First Morgan wasn't producing 4-wheelers when the M was in production. > The first 4/4 wasn't until 1936. Anyway, 3200 cars in 4 years is only > 800 cars per year. > > You are only confirming what I said before. This whole thread started > when someone said that Morgan was only an assembler, not a > manufacturer. I contend that Morgan makes more of their car than MG. > Just because MG had an inside with the corporation that owns them > getting parts made makes no difference. They, MG, still didn't make the > part. They just put it on the car. > > As for the suspension, I understand that Morgan buys a lot of raw > forgings for the suspension among other things and machines them in house. > > Regards, > Charles Hill > > > > >