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Automotive News Europe, September, 2002 by Morton, Ian
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Byline: Ian Morton Automotive News Europe
Rivals Delphi and Mannesmann Sachs have been forced to share the business on a new flexible assembly line at a General Motors plant in the UK.
When GM Europe decided to close part of the Luton, England, assembly plant and build both the Opel/Vauxhall Vectra and Astra at Ellesmere Port, it insisted the two suppliers cooperate.
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"The situation was a shotgun marriage," said John Hickson, GM materials production control planning manager. GM wanted companies that had "tendered successfully for business at Luton and had ...
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