KY Jon,
You could well be right. I think was has me most perplexed is that it says New Haven Arms Co. If it had some silly made up trade name it would make perfect sense. But New Haven Arms was a real company which changed its name to Winchester, so you have to think the name was still owned by either Winchester, or an investor, or SOMEBODY.
American Motors hasnt existed for decades, but i can guarantee you if you introduced a car by that name, SOMEBODY would arrive in court with paperwork to sue you.
So the question is...did Baker, for use as part of their New Era production, acquire the naming rights in order to use it as a trade name...?
Anybody, thoughts or evidence on that?
- Nudge
