Future of Lucas...

[Tim Buja <buja@domain.elided>]

Can anyone comment on this?  I don't know if this is truth or fiction,
but I found it on the jag-lovers XJ-S electrical book pages at:

http://www.jag-lovers.org/books/xj-s/15-Electrical2.html

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WHERE IS LUCAS TODAY? REMANKING@domain.elided "Lucas merged with the Varity
corp in Sept. '96. Varity is what was left of Massey-Ferguson after it
was chewed up along with Kelsey-Hays. The president of Varity is now
in control of the new LucasVarity and it seems that he has no love for
Lucas or the name. US automotive operations will cease in the next few
months for Lucas and will only be represented by a company called
AutoSpecialty which was just recently acquired and based in LA CA
which will market no Lucas product but will be owned by LucasVarity.
AutoSpecialty supplies undercar and braking products. LucasVarity will
continue for a while in Europe but a team is taking surveys at present
for a new name for the merged company, and it won't be Lucas.
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According to the table of contents page, the book was last revised in
August 1998.

Tim Buja - Rockford, Illinois, USA - 80 TR8, 73 Stag, 72 TR6