After Longbridge Closed

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Originally Posted by Edward Huggins

Thank you so much for this information. Such haunting photos. Just think of all those dedicated Workers who had built their lives around Longbridge and the hopes that they had back in 1999 when the new 75 was launched. This was to have been their future.....

The problem with Longbridge is they didn't think economics applied to them during the mid to late 70's. Red Robbo provided the lessons but the workforce chose to ignore them and the BL empire was dragged down by it's larger factories (not places like Abingdon). Of course it was a complicated time, a surfeit of unions, pay rates, over-manning and so on. Also a sort of lack of design style (such as the Marina) compared to continental manufacturers (except the Fiat 500).

No wonder we can't produce anything for the Army now!

Kev