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	MG Rover are the largest independent manufacturer of cars in the British motor industry. They came from the de-merger ...
		MG Rover are the heirs of the British Leyland Motor Corporation, which was formed in 1968 as the result of mergers between many British car firms.
		In 1975 British Leyland was nationalised due to financial difficulties.
		British Leyland had links with India going back to 1948, but Tata was associated with Daimler of Germany until 2001.
	www.birminghamuk.com /wikipedia/MG_Rover_Group.htm (448 words)

	Opinion on the British Motor Industry
		British styling centres are responsible for ground-breaking new concepts, while electronic engineering in the UK is some of the most successful in the world.
		The British Motor Industry, then, underwent a radical change sometime around the late 70s - in other words, during the lifespan of the Princess.
		British Leyland, which at one point had Jaguar along with Triumph, MG, Austin/Morris, Riley, Wolseley and Rover, somehow missed out on the benefits of harnessed design expertise.
	www.geocities.com /MotorCity/4394/opinion.htm (855 words)

	icCoventry - Birth of the car industry
		The foundation of the British motor industry began in London on April 17 1896, when Harry Lawson, inventor and entrepreneur, held the first extraordinary meeting of the British Motor Syndicate.
		Boulee was brought to Coventry for the demonstration by members of the British Motor Syndicate, Harry Lawson, Henry Sturmey and B Van Praagh.
		Motor Mills was also occupied by the Daimler Company and E.J. Pennington, a dubious American who made many claims, made lots of money, did nothing and finally fled back to America where, it was claimed, he was buried in a dollar grave.
	iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk /0850cityhistory/0600motorcity/tm_objectid=11011925&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=birth-of-the-car-industry-name_page.html (1225 words)

	MG Rover Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In June, 2004, it was learned that Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation had signed a Joint Venture partnership to develop new models and technologies with MG Rover.
		In January 2005, it was revealed that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had intervened to support the alliance between MG Rover and SAIC.
		On 8 April 2005, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited Longbridge and stated that there may be some hope for the future of the company, although not the original deal agreed with SAIC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MG_Rover_Group (1598 words)

	Other Motoring Issues - Review - Whatever happened to the British Motor industry
		The British government at the time was adament in its belief that bigger was better so merged Leyland the truck company who also had the names of Rover and Triumph under its brand, with BMC, forming the entirety of the British motor industry and being called the British Leyland Motor Corporation.
		British Leyland was split up by the Conservative government in th 80's in a last effort to save the car industry and was sold off to private companies, enabling companies like Jaguar to break free of the mismanagement it suffered at the hands of BL and become a force once again.
		In 1999 the British Motor industry was reborn as the Phoenix Comsortium rescued Rover from the hands of BMW and became 100% British again.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /discussion/other-motoring-issues/76668 (1650 words)

	Austin History
		The Austin Motor Company was founded by the late Lord Austin (then Mr Herbert Austin) in 1905 with a capital of £15,000.
		Austin was not new to motor manufacture for he had previously been with the Wolseley Company and had designed his first car - a 3 wheeler - in 1895.
		After the war, when exports became a first priority in the policies of British motor firms, Austins courageously tackled the North American market and, in spite of tremendous obstacles, they have succeeded in getting a foothold in what is surely the most difficult motor car export market in the world.
	austin1800.homestead.com /Page2.html (1313 words)

	Encyclopedia: British motor industry
		Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947.
		The Austin Motor Company was founded in Longbridge, Birmingham by Herbert Austin, the former manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company in 1905.
		BL may mean: Basel-Country British Leyland Motor Corporation buddy list bong load Bahamut Lagoon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-motor-industry (962 words)

	British Motor Heritage Museum announces plans for changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At present, BMIHT are reluctant to specify the exact models they are either thinking of releasing or acquiring, not least because they don't want to send waves through the market but also because they claim to only be in the early stages of this project.
		The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust (BMIHT) at Gaydon in Warwickshire is to broaden its car collection, to reflect better the history of the UK car industry.
		Following a recent review of the long-term objectives of the Trust, it was evident that the car collection needed to reflect more accurately the diversity of the British motor industry as a whole.
	www.british-cars.org.uk /kimber/news/news787.html (468 words)

	The motor industry in Letchworth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Letchworth, as we know, was founded in 1903 which was approximately 20 years after the motor industry and about 10 years after the British motor industry.
		As a digression, during the early period of motoring it was generally agreed that gear changing was so difficult that it should be avoided.
		More basic to vehicles were the products of the Morse Chain Co. and the British Bundy Tubing Co. Whilst the chain transmissions of the early cars and lorries hardly survived past the Great War, many engines used chains internally to drive their camshafts and other accessories.
	www.letchworthgardencity.net /lgcs/motorindustry.html (2466 words)

	The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry - Cambridge University Press
		The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry
		The decline of the British motor industry is one of the most spectacular developments in Britain’s economic history.
		Placing the industry firmly in a European context, Roy Church re-examines the critical assessment of the achievements of the industry both before and after the onset of its decline in the 1960s, and goes on to test the various explanations which have been offered to account for this decline.
	books.cambridge.org /0521552834.htm (373 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Leader: Rover and out
		The fact that the UK does not "own" any winners at the tennis championship, it is argued, may not matter because at least we host the tournament, with all its spin-off advantages.
		Such a cavalier attitude towards industry may seem superficially attractive when UK unemployment is low and employment and growth are breaking records.
		It is a sombre epitaph on the extinction of a once mighty British-owned motor industry.
	www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,1455628,00.html (540 words)

	eBay - motor industry, UK Great Britain, Transportation items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		1974 The Midlands - The Motor Industry by Alfred Minter
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	The pioneer of British motoring is recognised.
		Yet although people remember the rascally Harry Lawson, who used the foundations laid by Simms to build the British motor industry in 1896, the far-sighted Simms is often overlooked.
		It was under those arches that the plaque was unveiled this week by the chief executives of the RAC and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, both of which he created.
		In 1902, worried by the random proliferation of motor shows, Simms also established the SMMT as a "strong, responsible and corporate body of the motor trade".
	www.brooklands.org.uk /Montagu/Montarchive/MONT8.HTM (641 words)

	The British Motor Industry, 1945-94; A Case Study in Industrial Decline
		The publication of Whisler's assessment of the decline of the British motor industry would thus appear to be well-timed.
		His thesis is that strategy formed a managerial lock-in which meant that despite the numerous structural and indeed personnel changes in the industry over time, the industry was locked into a prevailing ethos which failed to read the signals of changing market conditions.
		Dissecting and synthesizing the troubled history of the British motor industry is not an easy task, and Whisler is to be congratulated for taking this on and for producing a wealth of detailed analysis which makes an important contribution to the literature.
	www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0240.shtml (808 words)

	The Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust division of Rover Cars opened it's new museum at Gaydon on May 1, with the most interesting drive-in ceremonies on record.
		Rover and Standard-Triumph were added later as the fortunes of the British motor industry contracted.
		All of the vehicles on display were built by the various manufacturers that eventually merged together to form British Leyland in the sixties.
	members.aol.com /dolphnx/dolphnx/BritishMuseum.htm (1066 words)

	Cov Uni - CBS - The Motor Vehicle Industry
		Coventrys location at the very heart of the British motor industry makes it an obvious choice for researching this field in which CBS has a long established track record.
		More recently, the Motor Industry Observatory was set up within the Centre for Local Economic Development to provide automotive research regionally, nationally and internationally.
		Staff members collaborate in research with the motor industry group at the University of Caen, with GERPISA at the University of Evry (Paris), and frequently act as consultant experts to media such as the BBC and ITV.
	www.corporate.coventry.ac.uk /index.jsp?d=141&a=1081 (147 words)

	British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It was formed through the 1968 merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd.
		British automobile executive who presided over the merger that resulted in British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd. (later renamed BL Public Limited Company), the largest automaker in England.
		British manufacturer of expensive, prestigious automobiles; founded in 1906 by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; acquired Bentley Motors Ltd. in 1931; began airplane engine manufacturing, producing the Eagle engine in 1914; filed bankruptcy in 1971; reorganized and separated into Rolls-Royce Motor Holdings Limited, a public automobile corporation, and Rolls-Royce Limited, a...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015458 (834 words)

	AutoWeek - The Auto Enthusiast's Online Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British motor industry of the last century achieved an adhesive reputation for building cars that leaked oil.
		In the early 1900s, British and colonial gasket manufacturers by the score supplied the motor and defense industries.
		By then the British motor industry was already prey to foreign investors, a circumstance that resulted in management instability, labor unrest and the Rover Sterling.
	www.autoweek.com /article.cms?articleId=100596 (652 words)

	heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The museum is run as a trust and the goal is to preserve and show the history of the British motor industry.
		Since the beginning in 1896, the motor industry has played a fundamental part in the industrial and economic development and welfare of the nation.
		Many of the original British companies, from Austin to Wolseley, later became united in the one company that today is Rover Group.
	www.algonet.se /~lhansson/l-r/heritage.htm (338 words)

	Organization Studies: The British Motor Industry, 1945-94. . - book review
		This an interesting and insightful addition to the already voluminous literature on the post-war decline of British manufacturing industry in general, and its automobile industry in particular.
		This was possible, even as the industry became more consolidated, because merged firms typically adopted a holding-company structure, with the constituent firms maintaining a high degree of autonomy.
		However, it would be assumed that the problems experienced by the larger firm were due to the correct strategy being poorly implemented, and that the merged firm would benefit from the e xpertise of the managers of the successful partner in the merger.
	findarticles.com /cf_dls/m4339/2_23/88252995/p1/article.jhtml (1127 words)

	Company is a history of British marques
		Rover today is the culmination of a long process of mergers and takeovers within the British motor industry since the Second World War.
		In 1968, after a series of upheavals in the British motor industry, Leyland merged with British Motor Holdings to form British Leyland Motor Corporation, the country's largest car maker.
		In 1975, the name was shortened to British Leyland, to BL Limited in 1978 and finally to the Rover Group plc in 1986.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/03/17/nrov417.html (282 words)

	Automotive Manufacturing & Production: BMW & the British Motor Industry: Shock to the system - Brief Article - ...
		When BMW announced that it was dismembering what was left of the British motor industry by selling the Rover and MG names to an unknown venture capital company together with the Longbridge plant in Birmingham, the effect on the country was profound.
		However, the initial outburst of anger led by the British government and the trade unions soon melted away and was replaced by one of indifference.
		Rover has had a long and convoluted history and is the remnant of the once proud and mighty British Motor Corporation (or BMC, as it was known) that ruled the roost.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FWH/is_5_112/ai_62837153 (1323 words)

	Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British Motor Heritage Industry Trust can offer you a certificate suitable for framing.
		A refund will be made if for whatever reason we are unable to issue a certificate for a particular vehicle.
		For general information on the Heritage Motor Centre (http://www.heritage.org.uk/) such as tours, features, souvenirs and more, visit them on the web.
	members.cox.net /mininews/Articles/BritishHeritageTrust.htm (382 words)

	Motoring - Book List
		James Dewar McLintock is a distinguished motoring journalist and a member of both the Guild of Motoring Writers and the Institute of Advanced Motorists as well as being President of the Renault Owner's Club.
		This book describes how the motor car developed from its unpromising origins in the 1880s and 1890s, when motoring was mainly a hobby for wealthy eccentrics, until it came to be seen as a serious means of transport.
		It is largely a result of the career of motor manufacturerWilliam Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, that the university city of Oxford became one of Britain's foremost industrial cities.
	www.shirebooks.co.uk /Motoring/motoring-bl.htm (5721 words)

	Leunig, T. British Business & Contemporary Economic Performance
		While there are no formal pre-requisites, prior courses in one or two of British history, economic history, industrial sociology, business, science policy, accounting or economics would not be a disadvantage.
		British regional policy H.W. Armstrong 'Regional problems and policies' in N.F.R. Crafts and N.W.C. Woodward (eds) The British* economy since 1945 (1991), pp.
		National environment and international competitiveness: the British chemical industry F Aftalion A History of the international chemical industry, esp pp.179-184 and 269-280, but also dip into the final section generally.
	www.eh.net /coursesyllabi/syllabi/LeunigT_europe_spec.html (2688 words)

	Heritage secure under Ford control - 4Car News from Channel 4
		Ford has just appointed Bob Dover (chairman and CEO of Land Rover) as chairman of the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, which runs the Heritage Motor Centre.
		Following initial fears that Ford would dispense with the Centre, which houses a collection of vehicles, archives and artefacts from the British motor industry, its future as one of the country's major historical centres for the automotive industry now looks secure.
		Acting chairman Peter Mitchell is also retained on the Trust's board, along with representatives of other companies still associated with the British motor industry -Land Rover, Aston Martin, Jaguar, BMW and MG Rover.
	www.channel4.com /4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=1480 (158 words)

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