Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Anyone reading the history of BL and its succeeders
would have no difficulty realising this. There were no industrial
relations problems when BMW took over, but even they soon realised the
magnitude of the task to modernise an industry so lacking in investment
for decades was totally beyond them.

Your facts are incorrect. There was massive injection of taxpayers
money into BL in the 80's. Their problem was that they were incapable of
designing a product which could be made to sell at a profit, in spite of
having all the latest production and cad systems.

Regards
Capitol