When Rover Met BMW - Episode 3: A Job for Life
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2022
- Episode 3/5: A Job for Life (19 November 1996)
"When Rover Met BMW is a 5-part documentary series produced by the BBC in 1996. German motor company BMW had bought Rover in 1994 and the series follows the sometimes fraught relationship between the two."
"In episode 3, A Job For Life, twenty thousand applicants compete for 2000 jobs at Rover's Longbridge plant. Those who pass the intensive battery of tests receive an employment package that makes their high-pressure jobs among the most sought-after in the Midlands."
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Team leaders criticising keen new employees for working too quickly perfectly epitomises what finally brought Rover Group to its knees. We should and could have done so much better. Pity really. And I speak as an ex Rover Group employee, although I worked in sales rather than production.
5 breaks in ten hours? Sounds good to me
Shame they are normally around 10 min breaks. I speak from experience there 😅
BMW plundered Rover , taking the new Mini and taking all the know how to make a decent 4x4 from the land rover. It's like eating all the decent flavour crisps and leaving a load of ready salted in the bag and saying here man help your self to a bag of crisps!
BMW also took the Rover name
Can you blame them? BMW were losing 25 million pounds a day with Rover. The hard truth is that Rover made cars that nobody wanted to buy, not even the British public. BMW left Rover with one billion pounds which they burned through in five years and then they went bankrupt. The real crime is the Pheonix Four who left the company with a combined 40 million pounds. They were the only real winners.
No can't blame, the government did not support car industry like the German, French Japanese or American. The government pretended it did not support state aid but as we have seen time and time again it does just not industry ,it just our government chose the winner to be the City rather than industry. Which may have seemed sensible at the time , in hindsight not so much
That’s business I’m afraid. BMW did try but the strategy was completely misguided. The low volume 75 shouldn’t have been a priority for replacement and was the wrong car completely for the market at the time
@@edword7195 Well they bailed out British Leyland for long enough and saw that it was a colossal waste of taxpayers money.
I can at least thank BMW for using their much more reliable engines in the P38 making it... Less unreliable
I’m beginning to see why rover cars had so many quality issues. That line operation looks terrible
Well systems 1 and 2 were built for the metro and mini so were ancient. System 3 which isn't shown in this video was far more modern, a lot of Honda input as it built both honda and rover models at 60 an hour.
12:41 that didn’t sound good want he said 😮🤣
lets call him an asian gentleman saying he will work a month for free what a scab