DEMOLITION Longbridge East Works

[@eleveneleven572]

I worked in that office in 1975. I actually shed a tear when I saw that it was gone. All those livelihoods gone.

[@andrewhill7734]

Amazing how much money is put into demolishing a site .rather than Investors and government saving the place .how must all those people feel who worked there .there's nothing good about this county we live anymore .

[@ef7480]

There has been investment. have you been to the site recently? 'Governments' don't save private companies.

[@JulieQ150]

Great video of the modern dinosaurs. Will show the grandkids. I think this is where their great grandad Albert Higgins worked during WW2 with airplanes. Apparently he was always getting a telephone call of how to fix something. Kept him occupied for 50 years.

[@Daikenboy]

That was so sad, so sad. Thanks for posting.

[@markrl75]

Its what the late Derek Red Robbo Robinson would have wanted RIP.

[@muppetrowlf1473]

The management caused this. Not the workforce . And it should have been "funded" just like Germany did for VW

[@railenthusiast88]

Unfortunately its also happening with many of the former railway workshops. Derbys pretty much gone, Old Oaks due to go and theres little left of Crewe.

[@meetdamien]

Very well put together...well done..!

[@edgaralan9917]

I worked on the gearbox line East works 1970's , the majority were idle any excuse for a walk out/down tools.The sad thing was we earned far more thanaverage £46 pw for days was top money at the time.

[@edgaralan9917]

@dumbo7429 The unions ruled the roost, that's what crippled it, I know I worked there for years.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

Very sad to see. My Dad worked there from the 70’s all the way till it closed. Look a lot of factors can be accumulated to the downfall of Rover over the years. You could harken it back to the Unions strikes for higher pay, the terrible way it was managed by its owners, The raiding of the Mini by BMW, the fact that Rover was making out dated cars and not investing in the future to compete with its foreign rivals. It doesn’t matter now. It’s gone. And the place is now a retail park.

[@martynmiles112]

Very sad. The end of the British car industry. It’s all Foreigners now...

[@Gavichap]

Better management, better designs, better workmanship, better products. Simple.

[@mikemartin2957]

@@Gavichap only if the Japanese are in charge , most Eurobox cars are still quite dire when it comes to reliability & driver appeal.

[@PUREAAMERICAN]

The Western world is tearing down factories and our unemployment grows. China builds factories and has a booming economy. Why can't our goverments see the correlation before its too late.

[@SamLaventine36]

Because the factory went bankrupt

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

@@SamLaventine36 They shot themselves in the foot. Red Robbo, strikes, and poor productivity. No point buying a product which is outdated and more expensive.

[@ef7480]

China and Germay's economies are 'booming' because they have over a thousand small banks to lend to SMEs for productivity and research instead of a handful of massive banks only lending to massive corporations for asset purchasing. The real problem is not with 'the government' but with the UK banking sector. Government has no power over the square mile, its a sovereign state with its own laws. Why can't people see this?

[@ROBERTSCOIN]

and what have built in its place houses

[@R.C.D.87]

Depressing and upsetting

[@williamradford9631]

A big business bites the dust, with lots of employees sent to the jobcentre. A big demolition job, lots of mettle cladding and mettle work to be recycled.

[@BFMR1062]

you see this sorta thing all over the place (world) where bilding that are ok to use for ather things just get smashed down and then the land sites for years and years doing nuthing :( not to mension some of the UK's motoring history being lost, its a shame

[@chrisgrayston1982]

What a vast improvement, just think if you didn't listen to the trade unions in the 70s 80s and 90s and you did make a half decent product then half of birmingham would still be employed!

[@Gavichap]

Bull. They had their second chance as MG Rover and they trashed it with ghastly management decisions. Think about the CityRover, the Allegro of the 2000s.

[@rover416sigiangkampozof8]

2:20 NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO? ?????? LONGBRIDGE ROVER 😱😱😲😲😲😭😭😭😠😠😠😠😠

[@metalman4141]

Should have scaled down the size of the operation and concentrated on fewer models

[@ef7480]

fewer models? They hardly had any to start with....

[@metalman4141]

@@ef7480 obviously you’re a motoring dunce

[@Leo060708]

What a real shame.

[@carolherring9457]

my rover was one of the last 3 to ever have been made at long bridge :'-(

[@PreservationEnthusiast]

+Carol Herring Smash Longbridge up!!!! - the trade unions destroyed it trying to get too much money, and it made the price of the cars unsustainable.

[@jasinere35]

what caused the collapse of the rover group was more money was being poured into sh*tty import cars thru the eu & not enough was being invested in the uk car industry when labour came into power they bailed out the wrong thing that was the banks instead of longbridge witch put the final nail in the coffin of the rover group not only that bmw had no interest in rover they wanted the mini designs & when they had that they sold the entire company to an indian company who tried to keep it afloat until Gordon brown did the unthinkable & refused to help instead bailed out the banks

[@kells77]

jason adams nah more like the shite cars they were making

[@toptone2491]

Jason Adams The collapse of the Rover Group was due to BAD MANAGEMENT, the same factor that brought down BL, and a vested interest of the owner BMW to do away with a potentially in-house competitor. The Government had poured millions of public money into BL for nothing and didn't want to repeat the bad experience. Italy did the same with Alitalia and the results are dire as well.

[@jerrysummers5971]

More cars being made in the area now the problem is not British owned firms 😐

[@paulb4uk]

To think labour gave money to nissan and peugot but dine nothing fior the British car industry makes me sick .

[@Gavichap]

Please! Labour subsidised BMC then BMH then BL for years and years, till the Cons got in power and splitted and sold off the whole lot! And not without reason, giving the dire state of the money-guzzling behemoth at the time.

[@35geordielad]

History created at Longbridge (Once europes lagest car plant) and history right there, as it gets teared down for house etc. We will never get back our manufacturing if we do not invest and stop penny pinching with sort sighted BAD management.

[@jonymunoz2986]

😢😢😭😭😣😞

[@guylaister]

so sad :(