800 New jobs at Sunderland plant announced.
BBC news this morning carried the story - along with "Library Pictures" of the assembly line - the pictures may be 6+ years old as they were building the "Mr Man Micra" not the current models.
Good news for the Wearsiders
Come on the BBC get some real up-to-date pictures of British / Franco - Japanese Manufacturing and not out of date models
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Just goes to show - with the proper investment & sensible/competent management the British car industry is still viable. Lest anyone mentions Red Robbo & the Longbridge years - my take on the poor industrial relations of that era was that it was primarily the fault of stone-age man management techniques & a post-colonial world view that all we had to do was make cars & the world would come & buy - hence poor investment strategy with the ineviatble consequence. Shame the Japanese didn't buy up Triumph/BSA or transplant a Honyamazuki production plant here.
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Let's hope the managers do a better job than Roy Keane.
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>>Let's hope the managers do a better job than Roy Keane.
The only (..and not entirely tongue-in-cheek..) solution perhaps, is that the Japanese buy up the triumvirate of N-E underachievers (Newcastle,Sunderaland,Middlesborough) PDQ, before their isn't any Premiership representation north of Blackburn.
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Did it mention why the jobs were required? On the Spanish market they have recently started to sell a "Tiida"; which looks and is priced very similar to a Kia C'eed. I thought they had given up conventional family cars after the non-event of the Primera.
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"Shame the Japanese didn't buy up Triumph/BSA"
I do agree with your take on the demise of the British motor industry (cars & bikes), however Triumph are doing rather well at Hinckley at the moment. Given that this particular business was started effectively from scratch with nothing more than the name to get off the ground with and now makes bikes every bit as good as any competition, it just goes to show that a well managed British company could still be making cars in the UK.
www.triumph.co.uk/
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