Wheel Nut:
Carryfast:
But I think we were actually importing a few Jap crap motors even then for anyone who really wanted one instead of one of those.
No we weren’t actually importing many Jap crap motors in 1969 because the buyers knew better back then and had more money in their pockets.
As for the referendum I knew that Harold Wilson was a waste of space,just like Callaghan and Thatcher amongst ‘others’ running the yes campaign,even before I was old enough to vote. 
By the way by ‘export’ of ‘British made’ Jap cars does that mean from foundry to finished product including most of the sub contract componentry 
and you didn’t answer that question related to the actual numbers of British workers emmployed in the British car industry and it’s suppliers in 1969 compared to today.
The employee numbers were many more, but you have to choose between quality and quantity, from 1969 there would be 17 people sweeping up one production line, now 2 men will do the whole plant with modern machinery, much the same as the rest of the plant. As you talk of 1969 and BLMC being the major manufacturer, the new “exciting” vehicles in the car parc were Maxi, Dolomite and Toledo, all world beaters■■?
telegraph.co.uk/finance/comm … r-war.html
Interestingly I discovered that in 1975 there were 3,500,000 new cars sold in Germany and France, of which only 7204 were of British manufacture
I said we were importing ‘a few’ Jap crap motors but we ‘weren’t importing many’ so where’s the problem with that being that those two statements are entirely consistent with each other. 
I wasn’t referring to production line sweepers being that in the truck factory where I worked the sweeper was just that one sweeper who also drove the forklift.I was referring to front line production workers working in every type of sector concerning vehicle production from steel making to final inspection and test drivers. 
It’s noticeable that you didn’t actually answer that question concerning that type of employment amounts then compared to now as opposed to just the sweeper and forklift driver.
I think your figures concerning car sales in Germany and France actually confirms my case concerning the trade deficit which we’ve always run in the EEC/EU after opening up our markets to euro imports.But no the exciting products in the British car parks before we joined the EEC were the larger engined models made by Jaguar,Rover,Triumph and Ford and Vauxhall.IE Jag Mk2,S type,XJ6/12,Rover 2000/3500,Triumph 2.5 PI,Ford Zodiac and Vauxhall Ventora etc.The type of description which you’ve provided is just typical selective bollox.When in fact the Germans and the French were never going to chuck their own economies down the tubes by buying imports from us or each other for that matter even though at that time most British car products,as I’ve described,were superior to theirs.
Although no surprise that the Germans were the ones who capitalised on the superiority of the large front engined rear wheel drive format,while Ford and GM increasingly handed that sector over to Cologne and Russelsheim at the expense of Dagenham and Luton.While everyone else here was zb’ing about with increasingly going for zb front wheel drive technology just like the French using descriptions like ‘new’ and ‘exciting’,to lower the expectations of British workers, because the government knew what what was coming when we handed the country’s interests over to ze Germans to keep them happy.All to make sure that the zb’s wouldn’t invade their neighbours in future and to show the East Gerrmans what a wonderful place West Germany was by comparison with their own commie zb hole.
The rest is history and no matter how you try to dress it up the state of the economy today compared to how it stood up to 1972 says it all. 
So it’s probably a case of stay at home and don’t bother voting for me.