British Leyland Motor Corporation 1968-2005

Mike Carver, Nick Seale

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN:
  9781862276642
• Topic: Betriebswirtschaft
• Subtopic: Automobilindustrie

This book tells the story of the constituent parts of British Leyland, later Rover Group, from the merger in 1968 to the end of production of the last MG Rover in 2005. The story has been told before, but this account is different. It is told by three people who were part of it, in senior roles, with the opportunity to observe and understand what happened and why. It is not another neat analysis by journalists or academics, using facts in the public domain and fitting them to a theory. The story is a complex one, and the authors' views are not necessarily those held by academics and previous commentators. There is still much that is relevant in a re-telling of the path leading up to this, for economy and society today.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• Prologue Formation of the British Leyland Motor Corporation
• 1 High Expectations Confounded: 1968–75
• 2 The Ryder Report – Two More Years of Failure: 1975–77
• 3 The Edwardes Era – The Start of Better Things: 1977–82
• 4 Edwardes Acts on Industrial Relations: 1977–82
• 5 Edwardes Brings Partnership with Honda: 1979–82
• 6 China
• 7 Privatisation and Consolidation: 1982–86
• 8 Graham Day: 1986–88
• 9 British Aerospace Ownership: 1988–94
• 10 BMW: 1994–2000
• 11 The Final Chapter – MG Rover: 2000–05
• 12 The Causes of the Failure of BLMC in Sequence
• 13 The Causes of Failure – The Underlying Weaknesses
• Epilogue
• Author Profiles
• Copyright