I presume you destroyed them all then ?? (!!!)morris_mini_minor wrote: I for one went to them and bought all the Cooper Sport 500 Plaques to stop rebirthing of these cars,
Rover shut down
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Re: Rover shut down
Cheers,
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New video of the Cowley factory today. I like those paint spraying robots! 
This is what can be seen in the new 'body in white' building and final assembly lines on next years factory tours, except for the paintshop.
2014 MINI Production:
birth of the new 2014 Mini from start to finish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXe-4kbrAXA
http://www.mini.co.uk/about-us/factory-tour/
This is what can be seen in the new 'body in white' building and final assembly lines on next years factory tours, except for the paintshop.
2014 MINI Production:
birth of the new 2014 Mini from start to finish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXe-4kbrAXA
http://www.mini.co.uk/about-us/factory-tour/
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Re: Rover shut down
BL : Pressing The Self-Destruct Button
"Between 1975 and 1977, British Leyland’s UK market share fell from 35 to 20.5 per cent – perhaps an unprecedented collapse in customer confidence. Lord Stokes has taken a lot of flak over the years, but whatever he may have done wrong is nothing compared to the 14.5 per cent of lost UK market share surrendered in the two years after he left the scene. This was a sales catastrophe.
And Leyland Cars insiders in 1977 expected their market share to go as low as 15 per cent before new models came on stream. Yet for all the talk of new models, Leyland Cars had some relatively new cars already. But the prospect of getting one properly assembled by a militant workforce who believed the taxpayer owed them a living seemed bleak. And tales of Leyland Cars unreliability were legion, from the MGBs that would not engage reverse on the set of The New Avengers to the Princess saloons that needed regular engine changes.
The loss of market share between 1975 to 1977 sealed British Leyland’s fate. It is easy to knock the cars BL sold at the time, but as various enthusiasts who contribute to this site will testify, the company had some damned good models. It is just so sad that the very people who were meant to benefit from this investment were so reluctant to screw the cars together properly.
Regaining the ground that had been lost was simply not feasible. How much taxpayers’ money earmarked for new investment was used to keep the company afloat during crisis after crisis? How much economising resulted because of this. Is this the real reason why BL did not proceed with the OHC A-series engine?"
More on AROnline:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/blogs/b ... ct-button/
"Between 1975 and 1977, British Leyland’s UK market share fell from 35 to 20.5 per cent – perhaps an unprecedented collapse in customer confidence. Lord Stokes has taken a lot of flak over the years, but whatever he may have done wrong is nothing compared to the 14.5 per cent of lost UK market share surrendered in the two years after he left the scene. This was a sales catastrophe.
And Leyland Cars insiders in 1977 expected their market share to go as low as 15 per cent before new models came on stream. Yet for all the talk of new models, Leyland Cars had some relatively new cars already. But the prospect of getting one properly assembled by a militant workforce who believed the taxpayer owed them a living seemed bleak. And tales of Leyland Cars unreliability were legion, from the MGBs that would not engage reverse on the set of The New Avengers to the Princess saloons that needed regular engine changes.
The loss of market share between 1975 to 1977 sealed British Leyland’s fate. It is easy to knock the cars BL sold at the time, but as various enthusiasts who contribute to this site will testify, the company had some damned good models. It is just so sad that the very people who were meant to benefit from this investment were so reluctant to screw the cars together properly.
Regaining the ground that had been lost was simply not feasible. How much taxpayers’ money earmarked for new investment was used to keep the company afloat during crisis after crisis? How much economising resulted because of this. Is this the real reason why BL did not proceed with the OHC A-series engine?"
More on AROnline:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/blogs/b ... ct-button/
