Recent content by moss78

Not much change out of £500 billion

The only way , this is plausible is for the RN to be at that size is the british economy to be at least the 2nd largest in the world relative to where it was in the late 50s and that was falling away . The industrial capacity would take decades to build up and for it to be viable a general...

l agree it seems to be during BAe ownership that the Honda relationship began to sour after R8 where Rover was seen by Honda as a more equal partner as BAe wouldn’t commit the same resource to follow on projects combined with a marketing dept who began to believe they could compete with BMW on...

Would have survived if the government wasn’t quick to privatise it and then give away to BAe , who barely invested in the company and sold it the first time there were allowed to.

Great timeline

great timeline

It wasn’t that it was the dollars it would cost .

Indeed a sort of British Daimler Group with a broad engineering base and volume in the premium end

Say a thriving Leyland that stayed as a large premium manufacturer partnered with Honda in the 1970s , leading to a buyout in the 1980s.

Do as Japan and Germany did in the 1950's and use smart Government intervention like reducing the number of models and upping unit production. BMC was hobbled by poor management and industrial relations and a leadership still fighting grudges from the 1930's.

Great timeline , no Sterling convertibility might help the British economy recover and at least delay the decline of the Sterling Area.