MB propaganda?!

From a MB friend of mine:-

"The tin cannister, or can, was invented in 1810 by Londoner Peter Durand. The year before, French confectioner Nicolas Appert had introduced the method of canning food by sealing the food tightly inside a glass jar and then heating it. He could not explain why the food stayed fresh but his bright idea won him the 12,000-francs prize that Napoleon offered in 1795 for preserving food. Durand supplied the Royal Navy with canned heat-preserved food while Appert would help Napoleon's army march on its stomach. Tin canning was not widely adopted until 1846, when a method was invented to increase can production from 6 in an hour to 60. Still, there were no can openers yet and the products labels would read: "cut around on the top near to outer edge with a chisel and hammer." The can opener was invented in 1858 by American Ezra Warnet. There also is a claim that Englishman Robert Yeates invented the can opener in 1855. But the can opener did not become popular until, ten years later, it was given away for free with canned beef. The production of tins really started to take off in 1913 with a little help from the Bavarian Motor Works workshop waste as a result defective aircraft components and engines. In 1928 BMW entered the automobile business by acquiring Fahrzeugwerke Eisenach (Eisenach Vehicle Factory), a maker of small cars based in Eisenach, Germany. In the 1930s BMW began producing a line of larger touring cars and sports cars, introducing its highly successful model-the 328 sports car-in 1936. Tin can production was further boosted in 1940 when BMW started to produce cars that inevitably failed but were still well suited to the production of tins for storage of beans for the workers. After World War II ended in 1945, Allied forces dismantled the company's main factories. BMW made kitchen and garden equipment before introducing a new, inexpensive motorcycle to the German market in 1948. The company's return to auto production in the 1950s resulted in poor sales due to poor build quality, but this all helped the tin can industry. In the 1960s the company turned its fortunes around by focusing on sports sedans and compact touring cars, and it began to compete with Mercedes-Benz in the luxury-car markets of Europe and the United States. BMW's U.S. sales peaked in 1986 but then dropped steeply, partly due to competition from two new luxury cars-Lexus, made by Toyota Motor Corporation, and Infiniti, made by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. The 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall led to a boom in car sales in Europe, and in 1992 BMW outsold Mercedes-Benz in Europe for the first time. It’s ironic that after a BMW is used for tin production, tests have proved that the tin can now with food sealed inside often lasted longer than a BMW car. Some Mercedes cars also end up the same way but not as many as the BMW as they are more common and don’t last as long as the superior Mercedes marque."

The pots 'n pans element is true.

You will be pleased to hear that his 'G' reg 300T estate is showing evidence of the the tinworm.