Olde term
 

On the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea in the Paris of Kirk German is an area:

Willy and Bill are short for William, or Guillaume from whence it came, and Willis, Wyllys, Willys are possessives thereof. Probably Wills as well, as in the cigarette company family.

And getting more on track, "Bantam" as in American Bantam Car Company of Butler, Pennsylvania, who produced the little Austin Seven under licence/license, produced their stab at the military utility. The word "Bantam" means of course a small breed of chicken....so that explains the connection.

Re: Olde term
 

What? Willy and Willies are after a bantam? I didn't know they liked hens and what have any of them to do with "track" and "vehicles". So off topic this is :confused

:devil:

Re: Re: Re: A silly Jeep question
 

What?

:D

Now that the Jeep debate has been exhausted A Nameing Question
 

This has confused me and the rest of the world for some time just take a look at Ebay adds

IS it
Landrover

OR

Land Rover

I have vehicles with badges showing a Landrover as a single word. Others have Land (then) Rover joined with a lightning bolt type of thingy

Can anyone advise on the correct :confused

Re: Now that the Jeep debate has been exhausted A Nameing Question
 

It doesn't matter, as long as you can find the repair manual, you will always need it with a Land(worhshop)? rover

Hendrik

L-R
 

I'm off the bed! The Rover Car Co Ltd produced what they called the Land Rover and the present-day vehicles are produced by Land Rover Limited. However "Landrover" is what people say!

Re: Re: Now that the Jeep debate has been exhausted A Nameing Question
 

Thats a rather unfair comment, Hendrik. You are talking about The Best 4 x 4 x Far :salute:

You listen to Englishmen, they will more than likely actually pronounce Land Rover as "Lanrover". Another one is Bedford, spoken as "Bedfud"...........etc.

Pronounciation is all about where you come from, hear Americans speak about English place names, they say it how it is written, here is one for instance, "War - ses - ter".....meaning Worcester. Strange really as a lot of these English place names are also found in the USA.

Right, I'm off to bed, leave you all to caary on, put the light out when you've finished :D

Richard

I'm up
 

5.00 am to see daughter off. Remembered an American tourist asked me once in London the way to "Ly-cester Square". He meant Leicester Square!

Land Rover: "L-E", "Landrover", "Lanrover"...

Back to bed!

An old friend of mine, a redhead and she stood 5'10" who I haven't seen in way more than a decade used to use Worcestershire sauce, a lot, in cooking, but she always called it "Whats-this-here-sauce" ... I always got a kick of of that! :)

Landrover
 

Today's issue of AUTOCAR refers to the "Landrover..."

What The ???????????
 

Actually, Willie (Willy, Wyllie, Willye) Nelson is a hick. He plays both types of music, Country and Western. As for the Land Rover (Landrover, Lanrover, Rover, Landy, Land-Rover, Lanrova). They are cursed by Mr Lucas, the Prince of Darkness. I believe Lucas invented the three position switch, on, off and smouldering. And as for the .....................
What was this thread about anyway?????????????

Re: What The ???????????
 

Willie Nelson also loves Jazz and even did some old standards stuff. Different.

This thread was about Willy aka Willie something or other. Right? Or was it Willy-Willie-Will He-Bing-Bang? Oh ... now I remember ... JEEPS!

(Poor Tony, your thread has gone a little crazy :D )

Re: Re: Re: Now that the Jeep debate has been exhausted A Nameing Question
 

I have several friends who drive Land Rovers, I drive myself a 1989 Range Rover, fantastic cars, but you need the manual. :cheers:

Hendrik

The sun never sets over the mighty Jeep

Guff
 

To an Australian, Us Kiwi's say "Fush and Chups"To us Kiwis, they say "feesh and cheeps"
and when an Aussie is counting , sex crops up alot.
So how do you people pronounce "Southgate" I upset a bloke by that name by pronouncing it at written. Apparently it is correct as Suggit!!

By the way do you know the inch was standardised in 1940. Prior to that the U.S. inch was ever so slightly different from the British. (Just thought I'd change the subject)

Re. A Silly Jeep Question
 

Jeeeezzzz Tim Tam

Why don't you ask a simple question next time, e.g. The Meaning of Life or something similar.

This discussion reminds me of what Stan used to say to Oliver, namely, "this is another fine mess you got us into Ollie."

Bob

Re: Guff
 

I think you might be referring to an issue known as the "Enfield Inch" in which the RSAF Enfield Lock were using a measured Inch to an 1860 Standard which was later superseded. Enfield never acknowledged the error, as they were making Small Arms to their own drawings and own measurements. It was not until the Lithgow Small Arms Factory started to build SMLE's in 1911 that it was found that the "Enfield Inch" actually measured 0.9996in. Enfield continued with their Inch until 1923, when they were forced to change all the dimensions on their drawings, as well as all their Gauging and tooling. When you consider that an SMLE rifle has 178 parts and these are detailed on over 20,000 detailed drawings with tolerances down to a tenth of a thou, you can imagine why Enfield were reluctant to re-issue the drawings. However, Lithgow SAF insisted, as Australia was just commencing production of the Vickers MG and when "Lithgow Speaks-The Empire listens"!

This is a topic all of it's own and not forTHREADJACKER 2000

Geep Geep
 

Jesus Mary n Joseph! this east coasters head hurts!!!!

I gotta Jeep.

In fact I got 2 Jeep or is it Jeeps.

I gotta Sheep

In fact I got 2 Sheep or is it Sheeps. (Argie war brides)

Let's drag up an old thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIBfU2lSfkY

At 1:09, Willis! (Older guy)

At 1:33, Willies (younger guy).