SIR: I am very angry to learn that BMW have made a successful bid of £340 million for Rolls Royce Motors and will use their engines.

This bid falls short of the £400 million that Vickers PLC were hoping to obtain. The Germans have already got Rover and it is so ironical that a ruthless former enemy should be taking over our beloved typically British car companies. Perhaps we should have let the Germans invade us in 1939, as they are doing in 1998.

B Howarth

Alexandria Drive, Westhoughton.

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