Re: [doc] Manufacturer of stainless steel panels

["nick12dmc" <Tammyfew@xxxxxxx>]

This would also mean Lapple must have been payed in full and not owed
any money. As I am sure that any company would have kept hold of the
dies if they were waiting for payment.

Nick H


--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Richard Hutchinson" <dickyh11@xxxx> 
wrote:
> DMC Ltd "owned" the dies - which ultimately meant the Government 
owned
> them.
> 
> They were sold off as scrap to recoup some of the money invested. I
> think the stories that it was to prevent more DMCs ever being made 
is a
> little conspiracy theory-esq. After all it only takes a CAD package 
and
> a few grand to have any die you like made.
> 
> Rich H
> DOC 365 VIN 1274
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf
> Of Stian Birkeland
> Sent: 05 October 2005 21:49
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [doc] Manufacturer of stainless steel panels
> 
> AFAIK, the German manufacturer/stamper of the body panels was 
called 
> Lapple. I believe the do/did body panels for most European cars. I 
> don't think they shipped the panels all the way from Germany. I 
think 
> Lapple had a subsidiary in Ireland that made them for DMC Ltd. That 
> makes sense when you think of the presses being sold off to a local 
> scrap yard, then used as anchors for fish farms in Galway Bay.
> 
> Lapple hadn't any more use for them since DMC Ltd. went bankrupt.
> Yet it still surprises me when I hear this story. Why didn't Lapple 
> look into the option of producing spare panels or take on other 
> offers, or auction them off? Something fishy there I believe...and 
> how "convenient" this must have been for the Government, ensuring 
> that no more DeLoreans ever be made!
> 
> What I would like to know is this - who OWNED the stamping dies? 
> Lapple or DMC Ltd? If it was DMC Ltd. then in the end it was the 
> Government who could do with them whatever they wanted. It was 
their 
> property. Shame really...
> 
> Best wishes
> Stian Birkeland
> Norway
> 
> VIN # 06759
> 
> 
> --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Hawes" <chris@xxxx> wrote:
> > I believe the company that manufactured the stainless steel 
panels 
> was
> > German.  At least one of the wing's on display was from the Audi 
> 100 of the
> > time.  The reason if I remember from something I read is that the 
> panels
> > were for experimentation of Stainless steel, aluminium and 
various 
> brushed
> > effect finishes.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Chris Hawes
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of
> > Paul Reed
> > Sent: 04 October 2005 20:49
> > To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [doc] Video Of Factory....
> > 
> > Didn't notice that. Was the factory just Deloreans or did they 
> > fabricate panels for other cars?
> > 
> > --- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Sumner <mikebmw316@xxxx> 
wrote:
> > > The footage is very interesting, but I'm intrigued as to what 
car 
> > the body panels that are wheeled across the floor are for because 
> > they are clearly not for the DeLorean.
> > >  
> > > Regards,
> > >  
> > > Mike Sumner - 178
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mike Bosworth <mike.bosworth@xxxx> wrote:
> > > In case you missed it on the DML check this Out..
> > > 
> > > http://www.dmc-delorean.de/videos/dmcfabrik.wmv
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Kind Regards
> > > 
> > > Mike
> > > #2001/403
> > > 
> > > 
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