Products From Carpathia

The Rolls Royce brochures from the 1960s¹ used to assert that their dashboards or interior trim sported Carpathian burl elm.

Recently, this headline caught my eye:

I forwarded this onto a like-minded friend noting:

Rolls Royce used to advertise that their dashboards had Carpathian burl elm.  Now they can enhance the claim and assert that their wheels are fabricated in a special factory in Carpathia where"they invented and have been making wheels for 6,000 years" assuring the excellence of a comfortable ride.

He duly responded:

What’s your point?

adding this picture to his response:

I rejoined:

"They're so big!" -- The Spirit of Ectasy

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1. As child I would ride my bicycle to Pasadena’s Rusnak‘s Jaguar/British car dealer and marvel at their beautiful machines. ↩︎