Re: Future of Lucas...

[Michael Jeffreys <michael.jeffreys@domain.elided>]

LucasVarity do exist (they have merged).

Note that I read (yesterday!!) that LucasVarity head office is moving from
the UK to the US. Lucas is now an American company!?

The CEO is American.

Tim Buja wrote:

> 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
>
> -------Begin Quoted Material-------
> 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.
> ------End of Quoted Material-------
>
> 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