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Post by Cartman on Apr 2, 2018 17:07:27 GMT
Yes,he did,it replaced a tatty looking Ford 100E
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The Saint
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Post by The Saint on Apr 2, 2018 17:24:38 GMT
Yes,he did,it replaced a tatty looking Ford 100E I saw Carry On At Your Convenience today, that Ford 100E looked like scrap! The Saint
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Bojan Scores
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Post by Bojan Scores on Apr 2, 2018 17:45:21 GMT
I believe Kenneth Cope had a Triumph 5TA motorcycle in the same film. No doubt he was supporting his brothers in the British motorcycle industry, but soon the lure of Honda would be too strong to ignore :D Incidentally I used to cast sanitary ware and Carry at your convenience is like a documentary to me :D
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 2, 2018 18:17:53 GMT
Sid's 100E Prefect was 14 years old at the time of filming.
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Post by Villain on Apr 2, 2018 19:45:02 GMT
Sid posed for the press cameras on the Rover stand at the 1966 Earls Court Motor Show and was duly given a brand new 2000TC for his troubles! With all the doom about the British Car industry it's worth mentioning (for a bit of balance if nothing else) that the vast majority of BMC, BL, Jag etc vehicles which now make up the classic car scene have overcome build quality issues and mechanical problems, with many design faults ironed out, and to be fair, not all British companies had as many problems as BL did in the same period. I went to have a look at a near mint 1971 Lotus Europa last Friday and was quite taken aback at the standard of fit and finish for what was almost a home built car when it was new. The often used cliché of 'Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious' does have some truth to it but overall firms like Lotus, TVR, Marcos, Aston Martin and Morgan didn't suffer the same troubles as the larger concerns. Villain
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Post by Batgirl on Apr 17, 2018 5:57:52 GMT
I like this pic of a British car maker from the 1960s. This is the one millionth Cortina leaving the Dagenham plant to go to its owner in Belgium !
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 22, 2019 19:00:00 GMT
Relations between the unions and management ruined many a British industry in the 60s onwards, with faults on both sides and certainly affected the car industry. Quality was appalling even in premium brands like Jaguar.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 23, 2019 11:48:26 GMT
It's kind of ironic that manufacturers like Korea's Hyundai when they set their sights on growth in the car industry in the 1970's poached the British Leyland engineers, re-engineered/polished turds like the Morris Marina which became the basis of their Hyundai Pony, still a crap car but one which was a million times better than the one it was based on and used this as a springboard for their assault on the global car market which generally has been reasonably successful.
Yes they and similar companies like Kia and the Japanese companies may make boring, uninspiring cars but they do so en-masse unlike we do here in the UK and their products by and large work well and do what you expect them to do.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Apr 23, 2019 11:56:10 GMT
Sid posed for the press cameras on the Rover stand at the 1966 Earls Court Motor Show and was duly given a brand new 2000TC for his troubles! With all the doom about the British Car industry it's worth mentioning (for a bit of balance if nothing else) that the vast majority of BMC, BL, Jag etc vehicles which now make up the classic car scene have overcome build quality issues and mechanical problems, with many design faults ironed out, and to be fair, not all British companies had as many problems as BL did in the same period. I went to have a look at a near mint 1971 Lotus Europa last Friday and was quite taken aback at the standard of fit and finish for what was almost a home built car when it was new. The often used cliché of 'Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious' does have some truth to it but overall firms like Lotus, TVR, Marcos, Aston Martin and Morgan didn't suffer the same troubles as the larger concerns. Villain Perhaps in hindsight Rover should have stayed an independent concern instead of being sucked into the BL conglomerate.
Still I reckon eventually they'd have ended up taken over or tied-in with another larger global concern, isn't the BMW Mini facility at Cowley the last mass volume UK plant which had connections to Rover, albeit with Morris heritage?
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Post by Three Litre on Apr 23, 2019 12:09:27 GMT
BL was pretty awful, I mean what good cars did they produce?
When BMW took over Rover the 75 wasn't bad but the the rest of the range was rubbish.
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