well no offence but why ask if he worked for Rover then??? If you knew it was the Rover factory? Or am I missing something?Great Plum wrote:It's in Brum ( I think) and used to be the Rover factory... but alas, it closed...[/img]
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I was watching the discussions from the sidelines, BMW bought Rover for the Oxford production line and not Longbridge bt they were prepared to give it a go. The workforce wouldn't listen to anything Rover had to say even when it made sense. There was an attitude at the plant that they had seen Honda off so they could see BMW off. When BMW sold Longbridge, thye suddenly implimented most of what BMW had tried to put in place but it was too late. I was always amazed by the lines of cars they kept building even when there were not the orders for anything like the numbers built. Rover was a sad example of the workforce thinking that management had nothing to say and management thinking the workforce was too dumb to more than be led.
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and thereby died the whole of the British manufacturing industry.soc wrote:I was watching the discussions from the sidelines, BMW bought Rover for the Oxford production line and not Longbridge bt they were prepared to give it a go. The workforce wouldn't listen to anything Rover had to say even when it made sense. There was an attitude at the plant that they had seen Honda off so they could see BMW off. When BMW sold Longbridge, thye suddenly implimented most of what BMW had tried to put in place but it was too late. I was always amazed by the lines of cars they kept building even when there were not the orders for anything like the numbers built. Rover was a sad example of the workforce thinking that management had nothing to say and management thinking the workforce was too dumb to more than be led.
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and other very small car manufacturers like Noble...Ruthie-Baby wrote:Sorry, my knowledge of car manufacturing is somewhat limited (I know, therefore I should shut up). It was more of a general status type thing...Great Plum wrote:well , we still have Caterham and Morgan...
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ok ok I believe you... there is still a small amount of manufacturing, including cars, going on in this country.Great Plum wrote:and other very small car manufacturers like Noble...Ruthie-Baby wrote:Sorry, my knowledge of car manufacturing is somewhat limited (I know, therefore I should shut up). It was more of a general status type thing...Great Plum wrote:well , we still have Caterham and Morgan...
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