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Originally Posted by london
I seem to recall Mr Angliss 'slapped' an AC badge on his Autokraft MkIV after signing an agreement with Derek Hurlock. So, not much difference with what Steve Gray has done at AC Heritage. 
Both companies based at Brooklands, England, both companies using former AC employees. In my opinion, AC Heritage's 'continuation' cars have the edge on Angliss's standard Mk IV. |
My statement stands but I am not really refering to Mr. Gray's operation which is at least in the "spirit" of "AC". I refer to Maltese/CT./Michigan/German attempts to produce motorcars or announced attempts to do same.
The Angliss early "Autokraft" built ACs were a licensed deal but again were in the spirit of AC and in fact were done in period when AC was "out" of the automotive business and was operating more as a real estate holding company than any sort of automotive manufacturer. Had the Hurlocks desired however, they COULD have turned the machinery on and produced so sort of wheeled apparatus with an "AC" badge and it would have been an "AC".
The current ownership has no such capacity; no factory, no tooling, no skills and most importantly, no capital to do any such thing. One of the main incomes streams (such as it is) for "Acedes Holdings" is the license fees from he manufacture of "AC" products. When AC Car Group went bust one of the largest creditors was Acedes who was owed for use of the logo, IP and other licensed items. Do you think General Motors charges itself for the Corvette trademark? Or is "AC" set up to milk a stream of income from repeated attempts to produce and/or sell a few "motorcars"??????