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Another Tony Benn disaster.

From article dated January 2018.

Fifty years ago today, the pair put on a show of unity to explain how the new British Leyland Motor Corporation was going to become a dominant force in the world industry, pumping out a million cars a year from 40 factories. Leyland's marketing and research expertise, coupled with BMH's huge production facilities, would create an industrial powerhouse to rival the American giants.

It was the culmination of months of negotiation and cajoling by then prime minister Harold Wilson and technology minister Tony Benn. Alarmed by Britain's postwar industrial decline, they believed the answer lay in mergers to create giant conglomerates to take on the world. The aim was to restore Britain's position as the world's largest car maker, ahead of the Unites States. To say that things did not pan out this way would be something of an understatement.

Little more than a year later, in a dispute that summed up all that went wrong with this ill-fated venture, production of the Triumph 2000 saloon car ground to a halt as three different unions argued among themselves over who should tighten the dashboard screws.


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