Drencrom":3442mrql said:
That's quite a diplomatic way of putting things.
More honest / accurate would be to say BAC / Frazer Nash blatantly robbed the designs and technology of a highly advanced car post WWII when the BMW factory was pillaged.
Not to put a bad word against Bristol however.
As with Melvin, it has always been a huge desire for me to own a Bristol.
It is very easy to not understand what Bristol is about.
However, if you are lucky enough to understand them, not mush else even comes close.
As an aside, the reason why many may not have heard of the company is because it was policy never to use publicity, but rely instead on word-of-mouth.
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The designs were gained, I believe, as part of the American led Operation Paperclip to retrieve all avaliable technology, which in turn led them to develop a space program (and in a roundabout way, lots of amazing tech that greatly benefited cycling). In a roundabout way a similar thing happened to BAC with the American's post-war, due to the near-bankrupt state Britain was left in. An awful lot of technology was given away for next to nothing, or taken off of the Anglo-American Loan (which we only recently paid back in 2006). 
