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Date: 2025-10-13 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00023597
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THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

Number 27: How Tea And Biscuits Killed The British Car Industry!


Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7qKebPKMJQ
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Post WWII, a large part of British industry has disappeared or morphed into something that can hardly be called British any more. The old established British automobile industry has essentially disappeared and been repplaced by something very different.

This video tells some of the story. I will be adding much more on this soon. (see ... )
Peter Burgess
How Tea And Biscuits Killed The British Car Industry!

Number 27

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Nov 14, 2022

Why are the no British owned car makers? The British car industry was once the greatest in the world with legendary cars like the E-Type, Mini and Range Rover, but in the 60s and 70s British cars got a reputation for being unreliable and slow. Sales fell and a Government merger and nationalisation failed to make British Leyland viable. This video explores what happened to glorious British manufacturers like Bentley, Rolls Royce, Rover, Morris, Land Rover, Lotus and Jaguar. Was it jus the fault of management and the Unions, or was there more to it..?



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