 |
| Ex-Rover staff get Nanjing invite |
|
Thousands of workers lost their jobs after Rover's collapse
Around 200 former MG Rover engineers have been invited to work for the car firm's new owner, Nanjing Automobile, the BBC has learned.
Letters have been sent out to workers who lost their jobs when the firm collapsed in April.
The letter asks the workers: "Would you like the opportunity to work in China for up to 10 months?"
It also suggests the applicants would be dismantling equipment from Longbridge then rebuilding it in China.
The letter includes encloses a recruitment application form "to work for the Nanjing Project on the dismantling, reassembling in China consolidation in Longbridge of MG assets purchased by Nanjing".
Longbridge question
The news comes a month after Nanjing said it remained committed to restarting production at the Longbridge site.
Company vice president Wang Too Jing had said up to 1,200 jobs would be created at the West Midlands plant under plans to restart production next year - with a target of making 100,000 cars annually by 2007.
When Nanjing bought Rover in July for an undisclosed sum, administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers said the firm intended to relocate the engine plant and some car production plant to China, but to "retain some car production" in the UK.
They also said the firm, China's oldest carmaker, had plans to build a research and development and technical facility in the UK.
The UK's last British mass-produced car maker collapsed in April with debts of £1.4bn, a hole in its pension fund of £415m. and the loss of almost 6,000 jobs.
Since then reports have suggested that the Chinese firm has been removing machinery from Longbridge under plans to shift all of its car making equipment to China.
|
|
|
Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk
(10/28/2005)
|
| |
 |
|
| Other
Stories of Saturday, October 29, 2005 |
|
| Murano buyers offered DVD package |
| Uncertain future for Fiat UK |
| Ford Motor says to invest $75 million in India |
| Audi boxes clever |
| Daytona beckons, thanks to STP |
| Ford Focus ST |
| Mitsubishi Agrees to Supply Smart Engines |
| Vauxhall details new performance VXRs |
| Hyundai Puts Minivan Back On Track |
| Castrol has developed a new branded dealer programme called 'Service Rewards' which is being launched in the UK. |
| Audi Launches Europe's First Brand-Specific TV Channel |
| Next-Generation Volvo S80 Will Gain V8 Power |
| 4x4 Subaru heads to the UK |
| Struggling Ford Limits Bathroom Breaks at Navigator Plant |
| Mitsubishi Planning New V6 Outlander for U.S. |
| AutoTurkey 2006 conference set for 25-26 January |
| TRW Automotive completes Spanish airbag maker acquisition |
| Ford Delivers Hydrogen Focus Fuel Cell Fleet |
| PSA Peugeot Citron's nine-month sales up 1.3%; inventory cuts planned |
| The USO and GM Racing Bring National Hot Rod Association Drivers to Visit Troops in Germany |
| Dept of Transport: VED evasion cost rises by £18m to £147m |
| Nanjing Automobile in talks with potential Longbridge joint venture partners |
| Revenue Up, Operating Profit Up |
| Jay Leno to Present Restored 1968 Camaro to Fallen Hero's Son |
| Consumers Crucial In Outcome of Oil Change Intervals |
| MADD Kicks Off 2005 Strides for Change 5K Walk October 29 at Milam Park |
| Production October 28, 2005 |
| Kia Motors reports third quarter profit fall |
| Hot Wheels Booth at SEMA Offers Much More Than Die-Cast |
| Mitsubishi To Supply Engines For Smart Car |
| Micron Technology launches new automotive image sensor chip |
| Historic Ski Jump Commercial To Celebrate 25 Years Of Quattro |
| Programs to Leave |
| Mercedes-Benz Unveils R-Class Grand Sports Tourer |
| Ford Dagenham employees mark plant anniversary with new Transit diesel |
| Nissan reports 5.5% fall in quarterly operating profit |
| Toyota Builds on the Past, Looks to the Future in 2005 North American Environmental Report |
| Autobytel's Automotive Video for Hot-Off-the-Shelf Video iPods |
| Automotive sector is now third-largest PCB consumer |
| Monaco Coach Corporation Reports Third Quarter Results |
| GM Recalls Nearly 106,000 SUVs |
| BMW revises Z4 engine line-up |
| McRae's Fabia time Down Under |
| GM recalls nearly 106,000 SUVs to fix door latch |
| AvtoVAZ Chief Calls It Quit-ski |
| Hot-Blooded 408-Horsepower Volvo XC70 Roars in to SEMA |
| Daimler unit to appeal against ruling in MAN case |
| BMW 3-Series tops thieves' wish list |
| Ford's head of hybrid program to leave |
| New Buick Crossover Christened "Enclave" |
|
