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CABRIOLET CONFRONTATION • I am sorry that your pages are
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being used to expose our effrontery in naming our latest product Tautliner "Cabriolet" by our friends at Wilson's (CM 1-7 February).
May I remind your readers that in 1970 we produced our first Tautliner for Fruehauf France — our then licensees — which had an opening roof called "Pakamac J. T. Rollback" — a product sold jointly by BoaRoy, the late Tom Pollard of Dyson Trailers and Noel Bushell of Pakamac. "Pakamac J. 1'. Rollback" was not really translatable into French and they needed something with a ring to it like "Le Bastille", Savoyarde or "De capotable" a la Citroen of the period — so we called it simply "Cabriolet". That we now choose to call our "20 years on" version Tautliner "Cabriolet" is complimentary to that early product, now so much a part of the French transport scene.
May I remind your readers that there are Skoda Cabriolets, Ford Cabriolets, Vauxhall Cabriolets and BMW Cabriolets and their purchasers are not in the least confused when they select them — in our case the prefix "Tautliner" defines the origin clearly.
E G Broadbent MIRTE, Joint managing director, Boalloy,
West Heath, Congleton, Cheshire.