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If one wished to make a tenuous link between the current pair of threads, the old AFN factory (little changed) on the London Road Isleworth Middlesex is now, and has been since Porsche moved out, the main dealer for Chrysler/Jeep (and Skoda)!

Round the corner in a road called Wood Lane used to be a bodyshop (Duralac?) that was run by an emigre German paint chemist who advised AFN and, so he claimed, early Bristols with the problems of getting paint to stick to the aluminium bodies — I have never come across a mention of this fellow, but the Frazer Nash people and Duralac's own workforce mentioned much the same tales. Anyone know any more about this?

George