Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]William G. Lamb, III wrote: > Jag's > heritage is around > Coventry. Closing that plant is a real slap. > > At the moment Ford have threatened to close Solihull > and move Land Rover > production elsewhere. This plan appears to have been > averted. I never > seriously believed it anyway since Ford just > invested $1,600,000,000 in the > T-5 line there for the next generation of Land > Rover-designed products. > Still..., were Solihull to be closed, the "real" > Land Rover would be dead. > It was a huge struggle to get Ford to accept Land > Rover's new platform > which is not "shared". The Solihull workers don't > make as much trouble as > the Coventry, Longbridge types do either. > This is basically what I've been saying about Portuguese Leicas for years. And that opinion has earned me nothing but grief here. Go figure. Emanuel Lowi Montreal ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca