Well
quite a lot actually.
Anglia
Is the mediaeval
and late Latin name for England.
Is a name for the
eastern part of England, more commonly,
and more accurately, known as East Anglia
and, one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy
(Heptarchy: is a
collective name applied to the supposed
seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of south,
east, and central Great Britain during
late antiquity and the early Middle Ages
which eventually unified into the Kingdom
of England.)
Is a name of
various models of car built by the Ford
Motor Company in the UK from 1939 to 1967
Is the name given
to a type of "missing link"
Was the Name Anglia
too British ?
Some
say that the car Ford launched just after Britain
declared war on Germany in September 1939, was
named the Ford Anglia for patriotic reasons.
Whatever the reasons for Ford using the name
Anglia, by 1968 it was decided that maybe it was
not the right name for the 105E’s successor.
As the replacement for the 105E was going to be a
true European Car, Ford decided that the name
Anglia may be a bit too patriotic, so a change of
name was needed, and the Escort was born.
This little nugget
of information made some of the newspapers of the
time.
The Quebec Chronicle and
Telegraph of
17th January 1968 ran the
following article.
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The Montreal Gazette of
18th January 1968 ran the
following article.
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The British Columbia Sun of
18th January 1968 ran the
following article.
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A Ford Media 2008
Presskit for the 40th Anniversary of
the Ford Escort
also contained the following Paragraph.
"Originally,
the Escort was planned to continue the Anglia
name,
but it was felt to be too "British" and
Escort was adopted instead."
(www.fordmedia.eu/presskits/2008anniversaries/Booklet_Escort.pdf)
So there you have
it.
The Escort : an Anglia in all but name.
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