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An interesting picture from the Sherpa website

In view of the growing interest in globalisation, I am proud to reveal my links with the Russian automotive industry.

It begins with the British company now owned by a Russian company but which was once owned by an Anglo-Dutch company that had taken over a British company that used to operate from a factory that currently makes a Korean van bought from its American owners and powered by the Italian engine used in London taxis and made by a company jointly owned by an American truck-rental firm and a German car maker, which is soon to be replaced by an American manufacturer that is in acquisition talks with the Russian company that owns the British company…. And that’s only the half of it.

In short, the all-British Sherpa van has by degrees morphed into what is now the GAZ Maxus, which is made by LDV in Birmingham using plant shipped over from the former Daewoo plant in Poland. And now for the interesting bit: GAZ International is based in the UK and run by former Ford of Europe executive, Martin Leach, with whom I once had dinner in a Paris restaurant.