British Leyland Speke Plant Closure

[spartacusvikinga]

Sad.

[shaftsbury94]

scousers are lazy cunts, i know i am one.

[darren2514fv]

a waste of £10.5m

[darren2514fv]

Originally broadcast on Nationwide and Look North (Manchester)

[darren2514fv]

The TR7 was made mainly for the USA where Leyland were trying to challenge the US big 3

[evilrobottolhurst]

look at this video and then say that weak management (hardtop for the US market, mutuality agreement 03:30) and bolshie unions (Motor magazine's test car fell apart 03:14) are innocent. In 1977 you could buy Japanese, or one of the new generation of front-engined Volkswagens, and get great performance and good reliability. Rust sometimes only followed as late as three years later.

[mtpylkka11]

What can you expect when Austin, Morris and Triumph were competing against each other. There were too many car brands and owners had no courage to face it. No need to blame union or government.

[bmg1275]

What a farce! No wonder BL, British Leyland, Austin Rover, Rover or whatever you want to call them went down the tubes,lazy workforce,bad management and sh*t stirring unions.A recipe for disaster.

[gentil79]

yes, in terms of management.

[WelshyM]

Its quite sad looking at this. By 1970, Triumph motors had a decent line up of models but swallowed up in the dinasour that was BLMC the model range was not replaced and eventually died a sad death...

Triumph was a decent brand that should be still with us today, just like Jaguar and Land-Rover

[cl3mens]

Big thanks for uploading! :)

[Indul1]

Do you understand what happened to Leyland...for 10-15 years after 1945 the company did not build new factories or install new assembly lines/plant and equipment...that was the basis of the collapse of the industry from the mid 1960's onwards....Blaming the workforce is a typical British cop out.....like blaming the England football manager for the failures of the team...look deeper...

[gentil79]

I laugh when some "nationalists" blame on foreign cars for the downfall of the british car industry! this car, alongside the Marina, Allegro and stag, where the result of bad management, a comunist workforce and a weak government. all this put together, resulted in a soup that made the British public to vomit from it and go for alternatives.

[uskiwis]

Is the same true for the US auto industry?

[gentil79]

There are some similarities with the british auto industry, hence the reason why companies like AMC went down the hole. Chrysler has been near the abbyss for several times, back in the early 80's before they launched the voyager and before they joined Mercedes. they should copy Ford as a good example.

[wilkpauled]

I agree, this is really very interesting. I always wanted to see where my car was made and hear something from the people who made it. These guys must have done something right, though, 'cause my '75 TR7 is still runnin' today! (Plus, I think it looks good--even from the back.)

[woofusdad]

Thanks for posting this.

[darrowby1972]

Fascinating story!