About Rover
MG Rover in the UK was one of the world’s most renowned car manufacturers, and was about to celebrate its 100th anniversary when it went bust. At that time, its base in Longbridge, Birmingham, had made over 25 million cars.
Everyone at Rover (over 6,000 employees) lost their jobs at no notice, and the closure was subjected to intense media scrutiny. It’s now five years on, and everyone’s taken a different journey since the redundancies.
If you’d like to delve into the world of Rover a bit more, check out these interviews with one of the original Retooled team-members, John Barnett, where he talks about giant cats that roamed the factory among other things…
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I was at MG Rover for 15 years and you took it for granted that you had a job for life. I was there when British Aerospace decided to sell up also when BMW wanted to get rid. We all hoped and expected that somebody would come along and take over, so when it finally happened and that we had gone bust we were in shock and for many months later. I remember seeing so many grown men crying not knowing what to do next. One minute you had good wages going into your bank accounts next minute there was nothing.
They said there was help for all ex-employees in the aftermath but I do believe that was way over-exaggerated. I had to fight hard on my own, look for some kind of retraining or look for a new job but there was nothing.
Today I’m one of the lucky few that has managed to find full time work but I know of so many that are still five years on from the demise that are still trying to recover. People are going from one job to the next.
fuck off all of you cunts! burn in fucking hell cock sucking thundercunts you deserved everything you got you fucking wanker cunts