MG Rover dead - UK vehicle industry too?

Submitted: Saturday, Apr 16, 2005 at 06:57
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With MG Rover in administration and the loss of 6,000 jobs, the future of English vehicle industry (if any) does not look good to say the least.

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I find it astonishing that such a world force in vehicle manufacture, with a huge global market share could get everything so very very very wrong in the post WW2 years and yet a tiny country (that lost!) could get it so right. I just don't get it at all. What were the poms thinking!

As an example, here's a obituary off the top of my head and I'm sure there's a whole heap more.......
MG
Rover
Morris
Austin
Triumph
Leyland
Riley
Hillman
Wolsely
Humber
Sunbeam
Vauxhall
Talbot
Bristol
Jensen
Reliant
Bedford
Albion
Scammel
Thronycroft
Commer
AEC
Foden
Thames
BSA
Ariel
AJS
Matchless
Vincent
Brough
Norton
Royal Enfield
Scott
DMW
Velocette
Villers
JAP
Greeves
Hesketh etc......................

Now there's some great, classic machinery in that list, but that's a LOT of consumers voting with their chequebooks. What went wrong?????

Militant unionism, resistance to change, poor design, poor build quality....I don't know. Shaking my head in wonder.
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