Cars not looking for the contagion of Nazism
In 1922, Sir William Lyons founded the motorcycling company Swallow Sidecar Company in the English town of Coventry. The company's cars carried at the front of the hood the symbol of the initials SS (in the photo) until the end of World War II, but after the war the leaders thought that the logo would make them a disservice in the market and, in the hope that the Nazism touch would ruin the prospective buyers, changed the company's name: Jaguar Cars. In the hood they placed the cars the emblem of the aggressive metal feline. In the Basque Country, on the contrary, the double S, among others, the license plates of the cars of Gipuzkoa (until the year 2000), and the coat of arms of Donostia, like that of La Real, were maintained.
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