Rover Fans - Longbridge Factory after closure Archive

Tricky Red · 29-10-2009, 08:08 PM

Found this on another forum that I go on now and again and just wanted to share the threads with you. True Brit nostalgia really, seeing as it was.

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Hope that the original poster doesn't mind.

J1ODY A · 29-10-2009, 08:13 PM

That's a great site - the old hospitals always puts a chill down my spine especially when they show the post mortem slab!

Deano · 29-10-2009, 08:13 PM

would have loved to have been with hin with my screwdriver. I'd have had the bits of that ztt for a start.

Tricky Red · 29-10-2009, 08:15 PM

There are other threads where you can see some of the industrial espionage type tactics. Zetec SE engines, Caterhams etc etc. Shows that underground research was done.

tmlvaleting · 29-10-2009, 08:25 PM

Seen thsi before but still good, it was opened again to make the TF but they have halted production again lol

Veracocha · 29-10-2009, 08:37 PM

I walked around many of these places in 1979-82 when I was an apprentice at Austin Morris. I looked up at the corrugated rooftops of the East Works at the bullet holes from the war. Then there were 35,000 workers knocking out classics like the Allegro and the millions of Mini's. My dad did 53 years and my six brothers all did there share there. It's so sad to see the dereliction that's taken place but the pictures manage to catch the "spirit" very well.

james b · 29-10-2009, 08:53 PM

I remember seeing these a year or two ago but its great to see them again, any one got the links to these secret test ones?

Also did any TFs get sold?

BENJY · 29-10-2009, 08:57 PM

Wow I am amazed buy those pics cant belive there are still cars well chassis on the production line!
In one of the pics you can even see stacks of brand new tyres in the back ground
Got a feeling my evening is going to be spent looking at all the pics on that site as ive just found the MOD section.

One question though did he break into the site or was he allowed to be in there?

BENJY · 29-10-2009, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by james b

I remember seeing these a year or two ago but its great to see them again, any one got the links to these secret test ones?

Also did any TFs get sold?

+1

woodybeefcake · 29-10-2009, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tricky Red

Found this on another forum that I go on now and again and just wanted to share the threads with you. True Brit nostalgia really, seeing as it was.

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Hope that the original poster doesn't mind.

I love 28 days later and urban tourism, its so interesting!!!

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tmlvaleting OCD Sufferer (Obsessive Car Detailer) Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yeovil Somerset Posts: 1,651 Thanks: 184 Thanked 91 Times in 90 Posts	Seen thsi before but still good, it was opened again to make the TF but they have halted production again lol

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