I just noticed this:
http://www.migtigarc.co.uk/MIG_Welder/Oxford_Migmaker/oxford_migmaker.html
Apologies if it's already been discussed here before...
Anyone can buy the rights to an old name, I guess, but how can these new machines be any more to do with the old, genuine Oxford type, than any other brand of welder? They've even used a similar green colour.
They look similar to another line of MIG welders to be assembled in the York area. Does anyone know? I'm not saying they're bad or anything but why use the 'Oxford' name when there are thousands of other good names they could have chosen. I hope the manufacturer doesn't go the same way as Wolf did recently, after they misrepresented the name, from the fine Wolf tools of the 1970s to the Chinese stuff they were selling in recent years, just because somebody bought the rights to the Wolf brand.
http://www.migtigarc.co.uk/MIG_Welder/Oxford_Migmaker/oxford_migmaker.html
Apologies if it's already been discussed here before...
Anyone can buy the rights to an old name, I guess, but how can these new machines be any more to do with the old, genuine Oxford type, than any other brand of welder? They've even used a similar green colour.
They look similar to another line of MIG welders to be assembled in the York area. Does anyone know? I'm not saying they're bad or anything but why use the 'Oxford' name when there are thousands of other good names they could have chosen. I hope the manufacturer doesn't go the same way as Wolf did recently, after they misrepresented the name, from the fine Wolf tools of the 1970s to the Chinese stuff they were selling in recent years, just because somebody bought the rights to the Wolf brand.
