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- How the UK Lost its Car Manufacturing Industry
- Though it was a blow to national pride, the U.K. has learned to live without a British-owned motor industry. The U.S. could probably do the same. ...
- Articles 2009-05-15
- The Decline of the U.K. Auto Industry
- Though it was a blow to national pride, the U.K. has learned to live without a British-owned motor industry. The U.S. could probably do the same. Protecting the National Psyche Jaguar was acquired by...
- Articles 2009-05-13
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- The winning team: Elizabeth Eyre investigates an award-winning people strategy that is bringing two famous British brands closer together
- Think of great British cars, and the names Jaguar and Land Rover are likely to be on the list, along with the Hillman Minx, the Austin Mini, the Morris Minor, the Triumph Stag, the Rover 1000 and the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow to name but a few. Back in...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- What a GM Bankruptcy Would Mean to You
- As goes GM, so goes the nation? While it would be a landmark event and a blow to national pride, the failure of the country's largest carmaker would not be the cataclysm you might expect. How the Economy...
- Articles 2009-05-05
- CLASSIC CARS: Twelve bad reasons to leave Wolseley in the bin of
- RUMOURS THAT MG Rover, the last historic British car still, by a ruse, in independent British ownership, is perhaps to revive some of the marques with which it was associated in the dreadful days of British Leyland, should be greeted with snorts of dismay and disbelief. Take...
- Research articles 2004-02-03
- pounds 2.8bn subsidy for Nat Express
- The coach group National Express, which has emerged from rail privatisation as Britain's biggest passenger train operator, will receive almost pounds 2.8bn in subsidies - a third of all the taxpayers' money being pumped into the network. The scale of the support puts National Express on a par...
- Research articles 1997-03-10
- Opposition parties attack Northern Rock rescue plan
- Shares in Northern Rock soared after the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, unveiled a rescue plan through the issue of 25bn in bonds guaranteed by the taxpayer. The rescue will cost every family in Britain an estimated 2,000 according to George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, who accused the Government of...
- Research articles 2008-01-22
- A great Triumph; CLASSIC CARS with IAN JOHNSON This week: Triumph Acclaim
- Byline: IAN JOHNSON NOW here is your starter for 10: What was the last British Leyland car to bear the Triumph name? Having to think about it? I'm not surprised because the answer is the Acclaim, a somewhat forgotten product of a 1979 deal between BL and the...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
- Motoring: Marques of the 20th Century; Wolseley
- Haven't seen many Wolseleys recently... That's because British Leyland stopped making them 25 years ago. A shame, because Wolseley was one of the first British motor manufacturers, starting in 1895 when, as builders of sheep-shearing equipment, one of their engineers, Herbert Austin, designed a car - a...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
- Quentin Willson: GENERAL Motors
- GENERAL Motors, who are having a torrid time in North America because of massive pension and health care liabilities, not to mention a stable of pretty lacklustre cars, now believe that putting the GM corporate badge on all their models will reassure consumers. A GM suit said: "The name General...
- Research articles 2005-04-17
- Rear View Mirror: CERT FOR SUCCESS
- IT WAS 35 years ago, when British Leyland was on strike and most European manufacturers called headrests a luxury item the Japanese came along with well built, well equipped cars that made the average European car look like an Ox-cart. Now Toyota are the world's second largest...
- Research articles 2005-08-28
- Steering Neill
- Super models are difficult to find, especially in the gritty world of automotive supplies - but Unipart has its very own in John Neill, group chief executive and partnership promoter. Martin Wood reports With all those strikes, it is hard to believe a model for the car...
- Research articles 1998-07-16
- Maximum fun in the new Mini
- Byline: By Bill McCarthy Think of the swinging 60s and you will probable picture Carnaby Street, The Beatles, mini skirts and . . . the Mini. As a fashion statement the British Leyland baby said as much about the owner as the wearers of the other mini. ...
- Research articles 2003-09-19
- We love 1969
- A new car hits the market in January - the sports saloon Ford Capri. Its slogan was `the car you always promised yourself'. In February a human egg had been fertilised in a test tube for the first time, at Cambridge. In March the longest ever Old...
- Research articles 2004-05-15
- Audi abounds with innovation
- Byline: By David Whinyates Given all the fuss, you could be forgiven for thinking Audi has reinvented the wheel. The German maker is making a great play about the flat-bottomed steering wheel which is a feature of the latest TT Coupe ( designed that way, says the company,...
- Research articles 2006-09-15
- The British Motor Industry, 1945-94. A Case Study in Industrial Decline
- Timothy R. Whisler. Oxford University Press. [pounds]45.00. 428 pages. ISBN 0-19-829074-8. This book is an analytical business history of the predecessors of what is now the Rover Group: the Nuffield Organisation Morris, Austin, BMC, Standard/Leyland-Triumph, Rover, BLMC, and the nationalised and still many times renamed incarnations which came later....
- Research articles 1999-10-01
- Transforming Rover: Renewal Against the Odds. (book reviews)
- The fortunes of Rover during the 1980s and the early 1990s are examined by Pilkington within the framework of recent management literature. First, the organisation of transformation of the company is explored with the focus on the need for the renewal of manufacturing after its unhappy...
- Research articles 1997-04-01
- The man in the Mini is a Rolls-Royce speaker
- DO you know who the most requested after-dinner speaker in Britain is? Sir John Harvey-Jones no surprise. Do you know who runs him close? Tony Ball surprise. Mr Ball, MBE, FCIM, ACI Arb, speaks about three times a week and can, I am assured, have almost any gathering in...
- Research articles 1995-08-20
- Rugby Union: Cross-border rivals ready to rumble
- THEY MUST be feeling fairly smug, all those Wallaby types down there in Brisbane and Sydney: when you have John Eales, Tim Horan, great pitches, a perfect climate, an Institute of Sport, more new stadia than you know what to do with, a management structure that makes Microsoft look like...
- Research articles 1999-11-19
- Why shareholders dread nationalisation
- Railtrack. Rolls-Royce. British Leyland. It's no wonder that in the City nationalisation is a four-letter word. When the Government takes ownership of a private business, it almost invariably means that the shareholders end up with nothing, or very close to it. So investors in Northern Rock were surely not feeling...
- Research articles 2008-02-18
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