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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
We used to make more cars than anywhere else but the USA-they were built by British owned companies. .......... factories had a strike on.
Result- people with a choice bought foreign(Japanese mainly at first) which were the opposite of everything above.
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We lived in Holland in the 1960s when the revolutionary Mini car was designed. One of our friends ordered one and was promised a ten week delivery. Thirty-seven (37) weeks later the dealership still hadn't received any of the minis ordered.
We were definitely the sick man of Europe.