The end of British manufacturing. We no longer really make anything and our kids are stood around as there’s no apprenticeships anymore. Throw in uncontrolled immigration and you can see why the UK is finished.

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Great video of the modern dinosaurs. Will show the grandkids. I think this is where their great grandad Albert Higgins worked during WW2 with airplanes. Apparently he was always getting a telephone call of how to fix something. Kept him occupied for 50 years.

Fantastic clip !! Thank you so much for sharing it!!

Such ashame i remember when i was little when we went in to Birmingham along that road as soon as seen that bridge would always know was now in Birmingham my late farther worked at longbridge for years and i remember him telling me how some times car bodys would come loose up in that bridge and they would have to go up there to get it all moveing again iv always wondered why they couldn't have atleast left part of the frame work of the bridge standing so people in the future could atleast see part of what was

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Great film! My dad worked there during the war as a panel beater as a reserved occupation until 1944 when he got shipped out to india. He went back to work at the Austin in 1970 in body development. His last job there was to hand roll the first Austin princess bonnet!

Fantastic. Love the plumb bob to set the rudder center!

So sad that Longbridge is unrecognisable now😌

More cars being made in the area now the problem is not British owned firms 😐

History created at Longbridge (Once europes lagest car plant) and history right there, as it gets teared down for house etc. We will never get back our manufacturing if we do not invest and stop penny pinching with sort sighted BAD management.

Should have scaled down the size of the operation and concentrated on fewer models

Very sad to see. My Dad worked there from the 70’s all the way till it closed. Look a lot of factors can be accumulated to the downfall of Rover over the years. You could harken it back to the Unions strikes for higher pay, the terrible way it was managed by its owners, The raiding of the Mini by BMW, the fact that Rover was making out dated cars and not investing in the future to compete with its foreign rivals. It doesn’t matter now. It’s gone. And the place is now a retail park.

What a wonderful film. My Dad worked there before and after the War. He was away with the RAF during the war and used to fly Hurricanes, but I never knew that the 'kites' as he called them, he used to fly, may have been built at Longbridge. I worked there for a short time, after College, and all of us who lived nearby, knew about the 'flying ground'. Thank you for listing this.

such a shame to see british tax money down the drain very wrong rover should have been saved

Grew up in the 80’s/90’s Rednal/Rubery & Longbridge. Dad worked at Rover until it closed. Place feels a lot different now.

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My Dad was a flight mechanic in England on these , and he would always tell me the old saying of " don't panic flight mechanic " because the mechanic had to go up with the pilot and and to make sure the repair or improvement was going to work , toughest people the British , so love watching these hoping to catch a glance of my dad on the job back then.

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Riveting!!

04:26 AP881 Hurricane Mk.IIB delivered to No.308MU in India. Force-landed after engine failure at Suathu ,near Allahabad ,India ,15Jan.1943. 05:14 AP870 Hurricane Mk.IIB to Russia ,21Sep.1942.

I was just noticing the lack of worker safety equipment and some sketchy safety standards. No eye or ear protection. No safety shoes (the girl working the press with soft toe slippers?) And the men wearing ties while working with, near to power equipment!?! That scares me as much as the Nazis!

I was just noticing the lack of worker safety equipment and some sketchy safety standards. No eye or ear protection. No safety shoes (the girl working the press with soft toe slippers?) And the men wearing ties while working with, near to power equipment!?! That scares me as much as the Nazis!

Is this Austin Aero Ltd at Cofton Hackett? They built Hurricanes as well as Stirlings. Notice the barrage balloons; they were all around Birmingham and presented serious hazards especially when hidden in clouds. If they missed a balloon they could still its wires. And some did.

Where did they get the music from? Loved it. Those were the days when Britain was a great industrial power producing much of her own war material. In the Falklands war it is said she had to buy over a billion dollars worth of American arms. Sigh ..!😞

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Amazing how much money is put into demolishing a site .rather than Investors and government saving the place .how must all those people feel who worked there .there's nothing good about this county we live anymore .

The winch mechanism for that aircraft lift is still there underground.

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A big business bites the dust, with lots of employees sent to the jobcentre. A big demolition job, lots of mettle cladding and mettle work to be recycled.

who do you blame for the downfall of rover the government simple our taxes kept rover going they allowed bmw to take over this should never have happened this was the downfall of rover they took the mini job done sold it to four idiots they new what they were doing close rover they have got the british market then back to the government what did they do about nothing blair and brown what a joke typical labour was a working mans party not anymore

I wonder how much of the buildings actually got recycled as in reused elsewhere - windows, bricks etc. Such a sad sight when I saw various buildings ripped down :-(

and what have built in its place houses

WHAT A SAD SITE ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR BRITISH. InDUSTRY,ALL THE SILVER SOLD OFF TO FORIEN GLOBERLISTS

Very sad. The end of the British car industry. It’s all Foreigners now...

Its what the late Derek Red Robbo Robinson would have wanted RIP.

Looks like an LR version with the fixed tanks as opposed to the paper tanks.

What was WW2 about again? Thousands slaughtered in vain.

I worked on the gearbox line East works 1970's , the majority were idle any excuse for a walk out/down tools.The sad thing was we earned far more thanaverage £46 pw for days was top money at the time.

I don't know. Longbridge gone. It's all a tad wrong.

The efforts to make something so strong, so light.

if it were me i would big flats for the homeless people and a big training center for people who want to learn different stuff and courses to help them get the right qualifications for jobs and help people to get in to work lets see what people say about my idea

My first job as an apprentice was starting here in 1957,great memories.

Them bloody checks hope bob the builder builds rover once again

Company bosses took the money and put it in their pockets, that's how they killed the company it was illegal operation but it looks like they get away with it........

I always wondered was there any older vehicles in the older parts of the factory before they knocked the building down