Rover Longbridge 2005,2006,2007

A collection of photos from 2005 before the demolision started. And from 2006/7 during and after.
I worked in Powertrain for 18 years.
Don't really miss working there if i'm honest.

Miss working with my mates though. Badger

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

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• austin
• rover
• longbridge
• birmingham
• OneTrueMedia
• mgrover
• mini
• not
• BMW

[jamesdude92]

is that where all the mg rover cars were made? if so how are they going to build the new mg cars? confused !!

[badgerlad69]

Hi James

Yes, All MG Rover cars were made here.

As you can see it was a massive plant.

The new MG's will be built in the part that hasn't been demolished. CAB 1...etc

Thanks for your interest

[SpeedTriple59]

cannot believe how quick they tore it down,great place to work at,laughs corrupt owners,always selling of this and that,then when FAULTY TOWERS sold the land we knew it was over for good,he quoted he had a 5 year plan but did not mention it was to close for good,,thanks for the vid happy days..

[bromsgrovemanman]

Very nostalgic memories...so sad to see it all gone!

[LightningT5]

@mgzt52 Yeah and it's odd how Tony Balir has been happy spending money entering Iraq with his little dick head friend; George W Bush, but he can't even support this country's own manufacturers when they need it

[38DDBOOBS]

what happen to all the rovers that where not sold

[dannyisso]

My father loved his rover 45 which we got in 2007 and sadly part exchanged in the middle of January this year 2010, it had served us very well but we are a family of 4 so we needed something bigger and pultipurpose so we part ex'd it for a nice mazda premacy, Yes i truely miss our rover 45 indeed i just love rovers despite the bad things ppl say about them ;)

[gentil79]

I agree with you but... about the foreign shit, Rover had been mixed up with it since the 80's, so in the end of the day, it wasn't that British anymore! it wasn't the foreigners who killed the British car industry, it was the management who killed it! Can you explain the fact that German, French and Italian manufactures are still owned by their nationals? Because they move on, while BL sat on it's own arse wasting time with industrial action.

[mgzt52]

When will this madness end. Well I will always own and drive a rover regardless.I've even got my own repair business dedicated to the preservation of the truly great brand. I'll never ever drive foreign s**t,this is what killed the great rover. Yes people might scoff and say rovers were not the best but so what after all they where BRITISH and we care about our people and products and we where the best at everything. Until we where invaded and everything stolen from us by foreigners !!!!!!!!!!!!

[mgzt52]

Good god,i was in tears after watching this moving video. I've loved and worked on rovers for many years,my uncle worked at a rover dealership back in the early 80's. We've had rover cars in the family since the year dot. What a shame for a truly wonderful and superb company to be turned in to rubble. Just what is this country coming to, bloody government again forgetting to support british industry but quite happy to give our hard earned tax payers money to f**king foreigners,makes me so mad.

[hamster639]

02.45 is wats left of longbridge thats the Q gate it was newest part of longbridge

[nzoomed]

why did the dmolish the place anyway, it was quite historic

[mercedesE320fan]

good luck buddy, i would work at a german brand instead lol

[gilesosborne2]

The fact that the British public stopped buying British, and bought foreign tat instead because the media told them foreign was good and British was crap, is what contributed most to the downfall of Longbridge and the decline of British manufacturing; that coupled with the Thatcherite fantasy that we don't need manufacturing, and the shameful attitude of the City which refused to invest in UK manufacturing.

We are now a shithole, and the British worker has to pay the price.