Bye Bye Landie !!

[Steve Kerswell]

At 11 am. the last Landie left the production line. Me, I blame Tata, they have stripped the steel industry and slowly working its way through its assets, They own Land Rover.  Also I blame the governments, not just this one, They (we) have asset stripped this country of its engineering greats. Giving millions to overseas and failing to look after our own. Land Rover should be a national treasure, they still sell, Tata should not be allowed to take the machinery etc. out of the UK. Look at Royal Enfield, built in India and now selling well, that could have been British if it had a bit of government help, but no, we give it all to India, cheap, then they build them cheap and we give them millions to help them survive. I am angry, rant over, for now.

[Paul Sheridan]

Not all its engineering greats have been stripped ......... I'm still here ;-))    I know, I know, im getting me coat.

[Steve Kerswell]

Yep, there is a few of us still about !!

[Steve Kerswell]

Just been reading about Hinckley Point, another scandal, EDF is dropping it and the Chinese will put more in !! 5 years behind schedule and not a blade of grass yet cut ???? what ??

[James Doulton]

Apparently, last year saw the highest production of cars in the UK since 2005. Apparently it was 1,587,677 cars. The UK record is 1.9 million in 1972. Here is an extract from MSN

Jaguar Land Rover beats Nissan to become UK's largest car maker

has beaten long-time leader to become the UK’s biggest car manufacturer, a position it has never previously held in the combined 70-year history of its constituent companies.

The SMMT figures show that JLR’s production rose 50,400 units (or 9%) to 489,923 units, beating Nissan (whose production declined 4.7% to 476,589) by 13,334 units. Nissan's Sunderland plant - which is 30 years old this year - still remains the largest car factory in UK manufacturing history, however.

Jaguar's rise follows a period of £11 billion of investment since Tata took control of the company in 2009. At that time, annual production stood at 158,000 units. In that time the firm's workforce has also doubled, to 35,000 UK workers. The firm has also announced plans to invest more than £3 billion in UK facilities during the 2015/2016 fiscal year.

Why couldn't we invest like that? I think that the answer is in the stock market and the desire for a short-term profit.

[Steve Kerswell]

This is the proposed newbie, soon to be parked on a grass verge ( that's off road) near primary schools every where :-))

[Steve Kerswell]

If you stand on one leg and squint a bit, I can see Ade's Sierra, wonder if they'll do a green version :-))

[Adrian Southgate]

I don't see it dropping out of a hercules back door and surviving like a lightweight does either...

[Brian (up north) Morris]

very true gents i used to work in sheffield steel city. we made cash machines out of 1" plate steel. all the work went to india and romania. everyone lost their jobs and redundency money had to be paid buy the uk tax payer. sad state of affairs  good buy landy`s they will never be the same again. done.