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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 15, 2024 13:53:22 GMT
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24187666.bmw-oxford-mini-plant-excused-800k-council-chargeSo BMW the new owners of the Austin ? Morris ? BLMC plant at Cowley have been exempted from paying an £800,000 bill they SHOULD be paying under the council’s car hatred policies for employee parking etc because the council perceived there was a significant risk BMW, who agreed to utterly bulldoze the Cowley plant to the ground and then build the new factory there, might have decided to shove it and go elsewhere instead Personally i think they should not have been given the exemption. Either you believe the car is the work of the antichrist in which case they should demand the money, or they do not in which case they should abandon this fucking about Either way, the council deserves to feel the wrath of every newly unemployed former car worker as a result of BMW, faced with this highway robbery, shipping out somewhere else. After all, tbe design work is done elsewhere and most of tbe assembly stuff can be done by robots these days.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Mar 15, 2024 15:26:33 GMT
I heard the Germans had deep regrets in landing themselves with that Cowley plant. I think they are hanging on there on a thread, so I can see how another 800k loss would possibly make the directors think, we've had enough. This place is nothing but bad news.
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 16, 2024 1:56:25 GMT
The Mini and Rolls Royce companies were taken by BMW and the Bentley end went to VW
My contacts suggest VW got more out of the deal with their acquisitions than BMW did.
The redevelopment deal as I heard from my contacts on the inside before it was started was for the total teardown of the old plant. that was a while ago and I've lost touch post pandemic with the guy who told me about that, he took another job with another firm....
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Post by jonksy on Mar 16, 2024 2:16:38 GMT
The Mini and Rolls Royce companies were taken by BMW and the Bentley end went to VW My contacts suggest VW got more out of the deal with their acquisitions than BMW did. The redevelopment deal as I heard from my contacts on the inside before it was started was for the total teardown of the old plant. that was a while ago and I've lost touch post pandemic with the guy who told me about that, he took another job with another firm.... VW fucked up at the time thinking that Rolls Royce belonged to the Bentley group...A little market research would have told them that RR had been using BMW engines and parts in a merger between BMW and RR for over a decade...VW even thought that they had a stake in RR's aviation engine plants until it was pointed out to them that RR cars and Aero engine manufaturing were two different companies and RR aviation was part of the UK Aerospace industry along with GKN and many other companies.. |
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Post by johnofgwent on Mar 16, 2024 8:21:14 GMT
That misunderstanding was not just limited to VW and led to an entertaining day for me living the life of a lottery winner / saudi royalty for thirteen hours only plus handed me a contractual relationship for ‘sponsorship’ of my clearance to tender for government stuff that was literally worth way more than its weight in gold.
I quite deliberately chose to be impeccably polite to the company when pointing out the schoolboy error they made in a contract wording and whereas i suppose greedier men might have gone for the jugular and a fat cheque, i saw a prize far more valuable than mere money and a (slightly red faced) management were more than happy to do business to keep me open for business.
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Post by jonksy on Mar 16, 2024 8:28:41 GMT
That misunderstanding was not just limited to VW and led to an entertaining day for me living the life of a lottery winner / saudi royalty for thirteen hours only plus handed me a contractual relationship for ‘sponsorship’ of my clearance to tender for government stuff that was literally worth way more than its weight in gold. I quite deliberately chose to be impeccably polite to the company when pointing out the schoolboy error they made in a contract wording and whereas i suppose greedier men might have gone for the jugular and a fat cheque, i saw a prize far more valuable than mere money and a (slightly red faced) management were more than happy to do business to keep me open for business. LOL it was like the market research that Jaguar carried out to export their cars to Japan it took them years to meet the Japanese stringent safety criteria but they eventualy met the Japanese standards. They shipped their first batch of cars to Japan only to be politely reminded by the Japanese that the ones they had sent were LHD but Japan drives on the left side of the road as do many other countries...Red face time or what? |
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