Archive for December, 2005
Blogs : December 2005
31 December 2005 Snow joke… By KEITH ADAMS Driving in the snow can be a lot of fun in the right place… EVERY year it happens: we have a few flakes of snow, and the country seems to come to a standstill. I’m not sure why it is, but Britain’s infrastructure or its people seem [...]
December 31, 2005
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Essay : Longbridge after Nanjing
Some snapshot images of Longbridge and its surroundings as taken by Sniff Petrol’s Richard Porter and an insider. The signs of neglect at Longbridge become more widespread, and as KEITH ADAMS explains, it’s difficult not to succumb to feelings of doom and gloom after viewing these pictures of the plant – inside and out – [...]
December 28, 2005
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News : December 2005
Longbridge production still looking like a long shot. KEITH ADAMS SHANGHAI and Nanjing now appear to have extracted much of what they want from MG Rover and Longbridge, and are in the process of re-packaging the newly acquired know-how for their factories back in China – and that still leaves many unanswered questions about the [...]
December 28, 2005
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Gallery : Longbridge West Works, Dec 2005
R75/ZT production line The railway lines …a closer look The elevated tunnel The lines are silent… Crushed bodyshells Nothing but scrap now Bell and Howell no more The silence is tangible Records galore No more meetings… Cut up for photography The clock still ticks over… Sodium backlighting Old West Works number one It’s a big [...]
December 14, 2005
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Car of the month : December 2005
We end the saddest of years in Rover’s history with perhaps a snapshot of the state of the marque as it stands today – a high-mileage, diesel powered R8… Before you start emailing to complain about the distinctly dodgy choice of car, KEITH ADAMS explains why Andrew Carr’s high-mileage example deserves to be the final [...]
December 1, 2005
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