c. Cowley South Works 1992 Austin Rover Maestro & Montego Production Line
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- These videos were taken on the South Works in late 1992. At the end of that year, both North (Rover 800 assembly at the time) and South Works (Maestro & Montego paint and assembly) were sold to Arlington Securities for redevelopment. South Works starting building cars in the 1940s, after the war. Marina and Ital preceded Maestro & Montego. It is now as business park, home to Oxfam.
Maestro & Montego production was transferred to what was called the Body Plant at the time, now MINI Plant Oxford, where limited production continued until the end of 1994.
Nice to see my dearly departed Dad on his forklift at work
Tears in my eyes watching this in 2020 on the 28/12 . what a great bunch of lads and lassies so sad to see the end of an era ❤❤😢
Agreed. I still miss my Moonraker blue MG Montego 🙁
Visited this factory on a school trip and watched the Rover 800 series being built. Awesome place
Loved the rover lads when we had fun at work and there was nowt finer than a cup of t and a biscuit !
Great video , thanks for sharing , sad though knowing it was the end for British mass car building .
I can imagine workers at the Honda, Nissan and Toyota plants in the UK watching this open mouthed and totally bewildered at what they are seeing !
This was at the end of production
Why? Looked like a fun place to work. Laid back attitude and lots of banter
2:30 Crosses the pit right under the sign saying Do Not Cross Pits. Love it
worked on the lm 10 and11 loved cowley great bunch seems relaxed there but those lines were closing, it wasnt always as easy going
I know that my dad used to come home knackered after a shift here in the seventies and eighties. When it was up and running it was bluddy hard work.
Sad to see, all those different lives. Not saying there weren’t a number factors that led to this inevitability, but very little large British manufacturing left in the numbers who work at large factories. These sorts of places had social clubs, football teams, Christmas parties and the and other things that made them an integral part of the community which meant many workers socialised and worked together.
Could I use a short piece of this video for a video history of the Maestro and Montego?
That maestro van reminds me of the ones we had at BT I remember one lad had to use a sponge to empty water from the driver's foot well every time it rained (it was a brand new van) he had it in the MT workshop at BT but the could never find the fault -think it was a door seal ? Anyway as he was an ex army lad he just drilled hole in the floor -great video
That dark green van look like it could be for the Forestry Commission. I used to drive one.
Always said to see this...
If there is anyone out there who is wondering why the Cowley works went under. Watch this.
Must have been filmed on a friday afternoon.
Nope, Wednesday.
Eating and drinking whilst building the cars😂
Such good looking cars. What I don’t understand is that they were made up to M reg and this was December 1992. M would be 1st August 1994 to 31st July 1995. I heard that the Bulgarian Maestros were better built. They had much later registrations.
They were built on a single production line at Longbridge after Cowley closed when the Germans killed them off.
And just like that hundreds of even thousands of people are unemployed, the product of militant trade unions and incompetent management. After the celebrations and a long Christmas break I'm sure 1993 wouldve been full of stress and pity. Seeing the sign that dates the production facilities from 1971 to 1992 must mean that the maestro/montego were built using the same old equipment as the marina/ital which would explain alot
Very sad :(
pretty casual looking affair isnt it ? well , compared to a mid 70s american production line
then all look like Ghostbusters 😆🤣
cars built by men in jackets holding mugs when the rest of the world had robots that dont drink tea :-(
Not in 1992 they didn't...
@@1981MJD Really , how about this from the mid 80`s , I would say there`s a robot or two ...ua-cam.com/video/AFspa7jGW-I/v-deo.html
@@marshalllucky What can I say, some people really believed the "built by robots" thing... didn't take much but a few shots of a foundry, then a conveyor, and maybe 1 robot cell. It looks impressive if you don't know better.
@@marshalllucky Hmm...that’s a professionally made advertisement trying to sell an image, this is amateur footage of the end of production at a plant. See the difference?
@@numberstation just shows with all the money that the government has managed to magic up during this pandemic that in comparison to what it would have cost to keep these factories and marques alive, it was small beer. Instead the site is flattened and the people working there now are on minimum wages. small minded and short sighted. The french propped up renault and look whats happened ...still going and making money.
tea break after tea break...... the chinese made mincemeat out of them, and have people working like mindless robots. - for a common goal like..
After watching this, go watch BMW or Mercedes build a car.
The problem of why we have no British car industry will answer itself.