GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
Is it an urban myth that the various companies that built the original series Morris Mini Minor (also built as an Austin Se7en at Longbridge) made a loss on every single car they sold?The third, of course, is the old British Leyland plant in Cowley. A symbol of union domination in the 1970s, producing such high quality vehicles as the Morris Marina and the Austin Maestro (they were sold cheaply to workers, so were very common on the streets of Abingdon and Oxford when I was young), the plant eventually became part of BMW. These days they make a large hatchback there, absurdly branded as a Mini. And they're planning to close the plant for a month next April because the government can't guarantee their supply lines will be available.
If not, with management that inept who needs bolshy unions?