Soft landing at Longbridge

摘要

Mg Rover's factory at Longbridge, near Birmingham, was always more than a sprawling collection of assembly lines churning out vehicles. It reigned in the national psyche as the biggest and, finally, last British-owned mass-market carmaker. So its closure in April 2005, after half a century of bungled government interventions and bail-outs, was seen as the death of British manufacturing.