My impression is that Tony Crook talked up the Canadian engine, focussing on the variations as against the US variant, and managed to infer that this was in some way special to Bristols, when it was in fact bog standard. He did I believe once claim that Bristols "blue printed" the engines, what ever that might have meant, and got extremely cross when this became the subject of discussion on the BOC forum. One has to admire his mastery of Marketing Speak but I’ve done a bit of that myself, not that I was at all good at it, and I do know that it is essential to defend one’s words to the hilt, otherwise the whole edifice is liable to crumble.
The key thing is that they were and remain most excellent cars
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