Has someone tried shooting you Bodd?
Where did the British car industry go wrong?
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Has someone tried shooting you Bodd?
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My brother had one of these many years ago. (Europa)
Andy
Andy
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Bodd
Someone has shot me.. When I was 10... In the leg... Its not the reason i buy Honda
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The other thing I noted on the S1 was the seats were non adjustable so if you were over 5'8" they could be uncomfortable. I think they only made a few hundred of the S1 and all the things I mentioned were corrected.
Regardless, stunning looking car, I seem to recall most of the ones I saw in the 70's tended to be in the black and gold 'John Player Special' colours.
Triumph spitfire
Quite sort after now
My mate has one rusting away in his garden along with about 30 (at least) other old British cars
Started up and moved a wolsley yesterday
15/ 40 model??? I think? Not In bad nick tbh Def Road worthy it was a recent purchase
He has a couple of Armstrong Siddelys amongst his collection
Quite sort after now
My mate has one rusting away in his garden along with about 30 (at least) other old British cars
Started up and moved a wolsley yesterday
15/ 40 model??? I think? Not In bad nick tbh Def Road worthy it was a recent purchase
He has a couple of Armstrong Siddelys amongst his collection
I used to love wandering around breakers yards on a sunday morning.
Just think of all the north sea gas burnt that way for electricity in a country where most depend on gas for heating. We are importing the stuff now. I've tried to find out how much went that way but no success. Typical short termism. Also an article in the Sunday Times when this started. A person was phoned and asked if they would like to run a power station. Don't have enough money said person. Reply don't worry we will give you a low cost loan.
North Sea oil and gas money went to fund unemployment.
The company I worked for did some interesting asset stripping. Quietly move production of a lot of things to Taiwan. Then sold off their various automotive branches that were gobbled up rather quickly. Lucas was a well respected company even by the stock markets. Described as a Midlands based industrial giant. Selling off allowed them to use a clause in the company pension scheme to get people out of it so actuary valuations were moved into various schemes. Rather low ones. This later allowed them to take several hundred million out of the fund - pension fund raids. A term people might have heard of. They then used all of the money to buy up a small for American company in the same line of business and merge. That attracted the attention of a larger American ones so was bought up.
Me well I was sold several times so effectively was never aware of changing employer. The branches that were sold off continued working under the new ownership for several years and were then closed. I was moved to branch they reckoned no one would buy. Girling (brakes etc) and was moved out before it folded to a small enterprise that was bought by an American company. built up and then sold to a Swedish company for 20 odd million quid. A few years after I retired the factory was sold, demolished and replaced with a cold storage warehouse. Probably jobs for the Swedes now. The American company ran it on a pay for itself basis once things were up and running to max their profit when it was sold. They also sold their part of the American branches that were in the same line. The UK was used to develop the product and sell here and in Europe.Before Lucas sold itself off they got rid of a lot of knowledge via early retirement. Terms varied according to the person, poor in most cases.
Pension funds like this all over moved to investing in property as the returns were higher. This allowed many to take company holidays while the times were good and of course not starting to pay in again when the weren't. Mine initially was typical. I paid 7.5% of salary and they paid the same. Set up so that it's the companies money though - not the "workers". Later this was abused by companies when more realised they could take money out if over subscribed. So gov came up with a law - can't have more in it than the actuary value. Bit of a joke really as an actuary will tend to say what a company wants them to say or they will find another. So more or less no company schemes now. I do know that this change did close mine - no new members.
His place is virtually like that crammed with cars he's a hoarder
4 rovers all V8s
6 or 7 Morris minors
2 Armstrong Siddelys
Several rover 100s
Land rovers
3 range rovers
Daimler
And more
Going around there later as I keep my cars there
My brothers Europa was burgundy colour.
Andy
Andy
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EddieM
There's a lot of people my age or thereabouts who still have terrible memories of British built junk from the 70's and 80's even "prestige" marques like Jaguar were absolute junk.
Lucas also had a terrible reputation.
Lucas also had a terrible reputation.
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Bodd
On my frequent trips to good wood
I think the rarest car I have seen there was a fully restored
Morris marina
On my first trip to Canada I stepped out of Toronto Airport... One of the first cars I saw was a Morris Marina
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