British Leyland -They were crap and they knew they were.
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A training film for BL staff in the late 1970s.
Its long, but worth a watch. Disturbing that even then they knew they were s
t -and how to fix it.
Just imagine if this film had been aired on Nationwide or Panorama back then.
Spot some famous faces too.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyN4XhJ_ms
Its long, but worth a watch. Disturbing that even then they knew they were s
t -and how to fix it.Just imagine if this film had been aired on Nationwide or Panorama back then.
Spot some famous faces too.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyN4XhJ_ms
TheInternet said:
Link for desktop users:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyN4XhJ_ms
Cheers, didn't realise it was different when postin on an Ipad.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyN4XhJ_ms
The film stops short of the truth, the elephant in the room. The unions.
The designer should have been bked, the old fella too, the machine shop bloke the fella on the steel press....diciplined, sacked or whatever.
My Dad was a TV producer in the 60s and 70s. That was an industry highly unionised. He used to tell me stories like this:
Some equipment brike dowm (again)
You get the engineer out. He waits for the spark to turn off the power. Then a fitter has to come to remove the cover, the engineer begins work and fixes the fault. The fitter then returns and puts the cover back on. The sparks returns to put the power back on......A 5 minute job would take hours, meawhile the crew would now be in overtime and hungry, so the canteen people would be paid double time or whatever to give them tea and buns, by which time the guest on the show had to go, so you reschedule it all, but this time it has to be in London, so that's crew away for a day, first class travel, overnight stays etc etc.
Any deviation, and there would be union trouble.
Unions kiloed BL, the TV industry, shipyards, coal, steel, and lots more besides.
The designer should have been b
ked, the old fella too, the machine shop bloke the fella on the steel press....diciplined, sacked or whatever. My Dad was a TV producer in the 60s and 70s. That was an industry highly unionised. He used to tell me stories like this:
Some equipment brike dowm (again)
You get the engineer out. He waits for the spark to turn off the power. Then a fitter has to come to remove the cover, the engineer begins work and fixes the fault. The fitter then returns and puts the cover back on. The sparks returns to put the power back on......A 5 minute job would take hours, meawhile the crew would now be in overtime and hungry, so the canteen people would be paid double time or whatever to give them tea and buns, by which time the guest on the show had to go, so you reschedule it all, but this time it has to be in London, so that's crew away for a day, first class travel, overnight stays etc etc.
Any deviation, and there would be union trouble.
Unions kiloed BL, the TV industry, shipyards, coal, steel, and lots more besides.
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