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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMG Rover demise ends a 100-year run in Longbridge.(News)
Automotive News Europe, April, 2005 by Lewin, Tony
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Byline: Tony Lewin
With the collapse of MG Rover, an important chapter in UK industrial history ended.
MG Rover was the last-surviving British-owned volume carmaker, competing against much larger and better-funded international groups.
MG Rover's plant in Longbridge, in central England, is considered the cradle of the British auto industry - the UK's equivalent of Detroit.
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