newmercman:
Carryfast, do you argue with your own shadow?Spen King said this, Webster said that, blah, blah, blah. Remind me again who their boss was, you know, the man at the top, the big cheese, the head honcho, chairman of the board, the CEO, the man that was supposed to make use of the abundance of talent and resources at his disposal and create a market leader in every segment.
Again I’ll give you a clue, it was the same man that allowed internal fighting and squabbling to the detriment of both parties in the case of the Stag and SD1, Rover engines, Triumph suspension respectively and both would have benefited immensely. The same man that didn’t recognize brand loyalty and let Austin and Morris, AEC and Leyland fight it out while backing what he considered to be the winning horse. The same man that failed to recognize the golden egg that was the Range Rover, the one that is to this day one of the top ten desirable brands in the automotive world. The same man that oversaw the bad decisions that led to an unhappy workforce which led to the unions gaining strength. The same man that allowed those unions to take control of the whole empire, that man.
And that’s a small example to keep this post from crashing the servers.
The size of the task when Edwards took over was mammoth, they had a central control in London then another control centre in Coventry making decisions for factories miles away. He had the job of keeping the good and losing the ones that weren’t up to the job and apparently there were lots of both. One of his biggest problems were the staunch militants that were scattered around the company. There were over 200000 people employed and the place had spiraled out of control, like you already said there was only one bloke who allowed this to happen the blame is at his door because he let it happen . It is always easier not to do something than to do it !