A popular, and implausible, urban legend is that McCulloch mistakenly believed that he was buying the more impressive Tower Bridge. The bridge had been heavily marketed by the London Council in an effort to sell it worldwide. Ivan Luckin, the council member who sold the bridge has always stated that London sold the bridge honestly.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McCulloch    

Det sades elakt att McCulloch trott sig köpa Tower Bridge och köpesumman 2,4 miljoner pund ansågs vansinnig. Men i sanningens namn har London Bridge i USA blivit en enorm turistattraktion och ingen ekonomisk katastrof! Den nya - och senaste – London Bridge byggdes strax öster om den gamla. 

http://mindthegap.se/Broar.html    

Often incorrectly referred to as ‘London Bridge’, this is in fact Tower Bridge. There’s a story which claims that when American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch bought the original London Bridge in 1968 and had it rebuilt in Lake Havasu City, Arizona (low-res only I’m afraid), he was under the impression that it was actually Tower Bridge that he was buying. 

http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/08/23/tower-bridge-and-the-tower-of-london/

Tower Bridge is sometimes mistakenly referred to as London Bridge, which is actually the next bridge upstream. A popular urban legend is that in 1968, Robert McCulloch, the purchaser of the old London Bridge that was later shipped to Lake Havasu City, Arizona, believed mistakenly that he was buying Tower Bridge. This was denied by McCulloch himself and has been debunked by Ivan Luckin, the seller of the bridge. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_bridg.  

In 1971, London Bridge was bought by Robert McCulloch, an American businessman. He had the entire bridge dismantled and shipped to Arizona. It was then re-assembled over a lake. It was unfortunate really that he hadn't realised that London Bridge and Tower Bridge are not the same thing. A common misconception even more than thirty years later.

http://everything2.com/title/Tower%2520Bridge

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