And PS.....
Tom Rawson
Oakland, CA
<lpernice@juno.com>; "Tom Rawson" <twrawson@comcast.net>; "Ingram Len & Jean" <len@nutwood30.free-online.co.uk> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 10:48 PM Subject: on renaming the SuperSpecial
> PS to previous email:
>
> If the reason for renaming the SuperSpecial was that its initials, SS,
> were offensive after the War, then what replaced it, the Nulli Secundus,
> was no better, for its initials, NS, stand for National Socialism, which
> is what the Nazi Party called itself. I think somebody is barking up the
> wrong tree here.
>
> I am going to offer a much more banal explanation for the renaming of
> the SuperSpecial model in 1949/50. Hyman knew a good thing when he saw
> it and he probably wanted to continue the SuperSpecial design because it
> had been a good seller, so he carried it over into the Latin Series and
> gave it a latin name. Whereas other pre-War models, such as the Trio and
> the Toni Merkens, had been poor sellers and were not carried over into
> the Latin Series. As to why there was so much overlap between
> SuperSpecials and Nullis, I think enough has been speculated on this
> already and I have nothing further to add.
>
> Flash