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t walgamuth 03-31-2013 09:51 AM
Mercedes a class act
 
I just read in one of my car magazines about a person who visited the grave of Dick Seaman who was an englisman who drove for the vaunted preward silver arrow Mercedes team. He died in a crash racing one and is buried in England. When at the graveyard they noted fresh flowers on his grave. They asked the Vicar of the church who was putting flowers on his grave and he answered "The Mercedes factory has sent flowers to it every week since 1936". Wow!

Jim B. 03-31-2013 01:21 PM
wow!
 
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3123023)
I just read in one of my car magazines about a person who visited the grave of Dick Seabold who was an englisman who drove for the vaunted preward silver arrow Mercedes team. He died in a crash racing one and is buried in England. When at the graveyard they noted fresh flowers on his grave. They asked the Vicar of the church who was putting flowers on his grave and he answered "The Mercedes factory has sent flowers to it every week since 1936". Wow!
Did they drop them off from the cockpit of a ME-109 from September 1939 through May 1945?

t walgamuth 03-31-2013 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim B. (Post 3123086)
Did they drop them off from the cockpit of a ME-109 from September 1939 through May 1945?
that crossed my mind too.;)

I wonder if businesses were able to do business with each other across the lines in ww2?

Skid Row Joe 03-31-2013 04:34 PM
0_o
 
That's hard to believe.....;)

kerry 03-31-2013 04:45 PM
It got put on some kind of auto deduction and nobody has been paying attention.

Jim B. 03-31-2013 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3123103)
that crossed my mind too.;)

I wonder if businesses were able to do business with each other across the lines in ww2?
Perhaps arranged by a neutral such as Count Folke Bernadotte at the embassy in Sweden.

Or in neutral Swittzerland....

compress ignite 03-31-2013 11:35 PM
Come on,Guys...
 
Wars NEVER < STOP > Commerce.

IBM and Ford (both) were doing Business in Germany all through out WWII
[Sometimes With/For the Reich]

Botnst 04-01-2013 07:46 AM
Were they independent subsidiaries? Did they avoid bombing?

strelnik 04-01-2013 09:36 AM
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth (Post 3123103)
that crossed my mind too.;)

I wonder if businesses were able to do business with each other across the lines in ww2?

Daimler Benz had agents, er, representatives, in England during the Zweiter Weltkrieg, zo off kourse, ve made sure dass, on the grave the flowers were in ge putted.

barry12345 04-01-2013 09:40 AM
Flowers by wire so to speak even then may have worked.

JB3 04-01-2013 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim B. (Post 3123086)
Did they drop them off from the cockpit of a ME-109 from September 1939 through May 1945?

they were one set, planted summer of 1939, replaced summer of 45, made out of plastic.

tonkovich 04-01-2013 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by compress ignite (Post 3123326)
Wars NEVER < STOP > Commerce.

IBM and Ford (both) were doing Business in Germany all through out WWII
[Sometimes With/For the Reich]
yes, and george bush 41, and daddy prescott, and uncle herbie. in bed with thyssen.

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power | World news | The Guardian

Pooka 04-01-2013 07:24 PM
There are three Germans buried near an old POW camp in Germany. At the end of the war there was no one in Germany to claim the remains, so they went into the city graveyard.

Every year at Christmas the German government sends flowers.


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