Originally Posted by
foama
improvement had taken place. Their money-giver BMW was almost bankrupted in the process, and had to pull the rip cord during virtually the very last possible financial quarter to avoid becoming bankrupt themselves. Very tragic.
That's some story about the Austin car company. Before my time, but my mom had an Austin in Canada decades ago now. My Dad says British cars were unreliable. I guess they were mass market enough then, to be sold in Canada and other countries. And the odds of them doing the whole thing after the war yes is remarkable.
Also interesting what you say about the scale of the factory they had, with mini train track setup, steel mill etc. That is how people describe the old Dearborn Ford plant. They had basically every sub industry under one giant roof or acreage. Comes in as rubber and iron, comes out a car.
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