@@rat_king- Not just unions ! That is a favorite escape goat,as a way to fight of idea of unions and it worked pretty well ! But no,pretty much Leyland did not know what the fck they were doing and that with the dissatisfied unions made it crash . If unions realized that things were not going well and pulled their all,waited with their demands until there was a better time,yeah they MIGHT have had a chance . Had some great ideas,lot of bad ideas and divided in every step . That is why specialists that went for Hyundai were surprised how well and organized a car company can be . Just how Japanese were astonished how badly Leyland was run .
A lot of people saying this was supposed to be a Leyland PR film, are you dense? It's clear to me that this video was NEVER made for outside consumption. As a piece of film making it's a good effort and very watchable, but it was clearly designed to be viewed by Leyland employees and trainees at the time to shock them into diligence. As history has proved I doubt it had much of an effect.
Great video, honestly one of the best corporate films I've seen. Judging by the fact that there hasn't been a Leyland car made in close to 30 years, it mustn't have had quite the impact they were hoping for.
What a dark, twisted video, however, a star studded cast. I spotted George Cooper who played Mr Griffiths in Grange Hill, Paul Braber who played Denzil in Only Fools and Horses, Michael Robbins who played Arthur in On the Buses and I think Peter Dean who played Pete Beale in Eastenders. Still, a scary bloody video -- just like most British Leyland cars ever produced.
The monologue at the end with people being the "quality connection" between 21:01 and 22:05 also applies to other products, be it bikes, power tools and computers, even media products such as films, tv shows and computer games, people are the "quality connection" between good quality and bad quality, no middlemen and nothing inbetween.
An excellent film - thank you for uploading. In today's world the lorry driver who was driving carelessly would probably be rewarded for getting the job done quickly and Ted would be reprimanded for not completing as many drops and put on to a performance improvement plan . . .
it ends with saying the cause of the accident was never established. The brakes failed. Pretty easy to discover. So I guess even the cops are made at British Leyland.
The reason the brakes failed was the copper brake pipe bashed in the factory ,fractured cause brake fluid loss and I think also no dual circuit master cylinder split circuit ,as if you lost a circuit on a modern car the other circuit would still work even after total loss of brake fluid in other circuit
@@sawleyram7405 Exactly. How would you tell - especially with the forensic technology of the time - when the brake damage took place? Damage that happened before the collision could be attributed to the collision itself. Today, with CCTV, and traffic cameras everywhere, I'd suggest that you could be conclusive. Follow the vehicle back on CCTV and traffic cameras, and other devices, such as Red Light Cameras. He ran a red light, and appeared to go like crazy. Toxicology would determine if the driver had "chemical assistance" with his driving. So, what we would have is a sober driver, unaffected by drugs, who was driving like a maniac and appearing to make no attempt to stop. Let's say we got really lucky with the cameras and caught a decent look at the back of the car as it was going out of control. That would show activated brake lights, but no braking. If you see that, you have conclusive proof of brake failure.
@@sheriff0017 Yes I think you've hit it spot on and that's exactly how I'd view it. I can't think of anything available to them at the scene of the accident (then) which would have put the cause down to brake failure -- there'd be no way of knowing where and when a nick in a copper pipe was caused.
Thank you for uploading. This movie could be used for Human Factors Training, simply because Humans have not changed very much since 1964, nor management has.
I bought a brand new Triumph TR6 in 1972. On driving it out of the dealership, the final drive dropped out of the back. The car hadn't even gone 50 yards. One year later, I bought a new Triumph Stag. (I'm slow to learn). It went through 7, yes, seven cylinder heads in the following 18 months. That's the last time I ever bought a Leyland car. I had Fords after that and they were way more reliable.
I had a Morris marina never broke down could happen to a lot of cars I had a Nissan once the same thing happened luckily never killed nobody I had a Ford Zodiac and it would never start on a cold day just strengthen it is not only British Leyland
Such a reflection reality the scene as he drives away from the 'accident'. Worked alongside a an ex employee of a bearing manufacturer in Plymouth, he made them for both Rolls Royce and Toyota, guess who had the stricter quality requirements! No wonder we've lost all our manufacturing!
This would have been shown to staff at BL, to say step up quality and keep your mind on the job... Or this will happen... Great film.... Really enjoyed it!
Dammit Wendy! You mistyped the numbers, gave the blokes the parts that didn't fit and walked through the factory causing the whole operation to fall apart! There's no more British Leyland because of WENDY!!
Mr Griffiths from Grange Hill had his pre delivery inspection done by Mr Lucas from Are you Being Served . I wonder if Poirot was the accident investigator ?
Great title, Quality Connection, the one single thing that British Leyland, or whatever name they use today, never ever got even nearly right. Quality.
Just to add to my original comment, wasn't the driver of the Allegro towards the end the same one who featured in the 'Blunders Clunk-Click' PIF feature driving a MkII Triumph 2000/2500 which crashes into a wall & flies through the windscreen? (That was Billy Blunders driving his Dad's 1100/1300)
The motto: If you're going to piss off a customer, at least make sure you kill him and his potential offspring so he NEVER talks. Don't fuck around with PR, just terrify people instead. Somewhere, out there, there's a BL car with your name on the bonnet...
Although no longer manufacturers of motor vehicles in Britain, Leyland re-established itself in China, where it provides quality control in everything from plastic toys to electrical products.
I always liked the Fiat X1/9, but you never see them nowadays because they all rusted. In their favour European cars at least looked nicer than the Allegro and had hatchbacks.
@@AshleyPomeroy In 1962, Opel launched their Kadett A. (Richard Hammond's "Oliver"). This small economy car from West-Germany didn't need any greasing anymore, of bearings etc. Twenty years later, a brand new Jag XJ Series III still had grease fittings.
@@DolleHengst Non servicable ball joints are a double edged sword. I have replaced a great deal of them in my life due to wear, so its not that they didn't require greasing, they did. They just end up getting thrown out instead of lubricated. Trouble is, more people than I am comfortable with found out their ball joint was bad when the wheel came off. The cars I have had that had greasble joints were perfectly good, most of them quite tight after 30+ years or 200,000+ miles. An advantage to servicable fittings is that if the boot is blown, you can grease them monthly and they'll hold up for years like that. I've never had to replace a servicable joint.
Just an abject lesson in what inept and intransigent management can do to a company. A brilliant training film. But enough to make any Midlander of a certain age to weep. Longbridge was an important part of Birmingham and the Black Country and should have been saved. Just when the factory found it's feet it was thrown away along with tens of thousands of livelihoods.BL got a lot of stick. Much deserved. But many foreign cars at the time suffered appalling quality issues. Even German marques today have poor build quality ( original T5 transporter ) and reliability issues ( Mercedes/Bosch electrics circa 2000 ) . And what about VW ripping off it's customers about emissions? Many automotive technologies, that still exist today, were born out of Longbridge and it's other BMCgroup factories.
@@stejer211 I am the owner of a 1977 BL car and it is still a daily driver so go figure that one ou?t as denial sometimes is reality when you see cars scrapped from 2005 manufacture date these days :)
BL was run by a completely inept management. The workforce spent most of the 1970's being on strike. Whatever cars were built in between strikes had a horrible build quality - no wonder it drove customers into the arms of the competition. To me that is not a company worth saving.
@@pilskadden ? But that wasn’t the company that was Rover Group? By 2005 Longbridge was an efficient factory. It had the stamp of Honda and then BMW on it. Of all people the Labour Party threw it to the dogs. Those 2 huge Birmingham plants could have been making batteries and building cars under the same roof. All the ancillary jobs lost in the Black Country. It was an act of social vandalism to close it down. The car factory that invented the Mini that is thriving right now.
Ah - not Japanese cars...those guys were trying really hard in the 1970s: Colt Lancer / Galant, Datsun, Mazda, Isuzu Gemini, Subaru and Toyota...all great cars that were properly built.
My wife has a 62 plate Nissan Juke .it has gone wrong more than my 1978 MG B. I dont believe in conspiracy's but it does seem odd that we dont have any Heavy industries left. I think we have been hoodwinked
Alas, Nissan has been taken over by Renault years ago and, unsurprisingly, quality dropped. Monsieur Ghosn said it loud and clear: PROFITS FIRST. Get rid of that faulty Junkie and buy a Toyota.
There's something a bit strange with the police Allegro at the start. It has old-fashioned wing mirrors, yet I'm pretty certain they came with door mirrors right from the model's launch in 1973. Perhaps the appropriate parts bin was empty on assembly day and they just bunged on a pair of wings from some other, older model?
I noticed what appeared to be mounting holes near the passenger side wind-wing/vent window, questioning why, and then later realized the mirrors were affixed to the actual wings/fenders. As others have noted, I also asked myself where the ubiquitous roof beacon was.
Shocking as it may be from todays point of view: Those cars simply had none, at least not in the back. Remember when my parents bought a car second hand in the early 80s (buid ca, 75) they had them retrofitted so my child seat could be mounted. Front seat belts became standard in the 70s, back took quite a while longer. From Wikipedia about seatbelts in the UK: "Front seat belts were compulsory equipment on all new cars registered in the UK from 1972, although it did not become compulsory for them to be worn until 1983. Rear seat belts were compulsory equipment from 1986 and became compulsory for them to be worn in 1991"
This is a treasure trove of U.K. actors before they found further fame/were famous. There’s: Mr Griffiths from Grange Hill Adam Chance from Crossroads Poirot Who assisted Inspector Japp (the salesman) Denzil from Only Fools Mr Lucas from Are you Being Served? Madeline Smith Sid from the cafe in Last of the Summer Wine Arthur from On The Buses Eric Duffy from Please Sir! And several character actors
9:44 - I wonder if the "point double-O this and point double-O that" was a sly in joke the script writers put in as a reference to Madeline Smith's (Wendy) previous role as Miss Caruso in Roger Moore's first 007 flick Live and Let Die?
Continual improvement is not in the culture in the UK. It's got better over the years but it's still a major problem for this country. It's funny how the nation debates the causes of poor productivity but never gets to the real heart of it. A lack of teamwork and desire for continuous improvement
I bet they showed this to new employees to spark initiative in them, encouraging them to bring up problems, but they would have just been shut down anyway, and their ideas stolen by their boss. Sometimes problems in a company run so deep.
I just took delivery of a modern day successor to those BL products - an MG3 HYBRID Trophy. Everything on it all works, but then of course this MG like all current MG s is built in China Who now own the MG brand. Truth is back when that video was made nobody believed that poor quality would see the eventual collapse of British owned mass car production. Unfortunately an example of what happened to all British industry!
Basic British humor: Mr. Bean.
Maximum British humor: British Leyland talking about quality.
The ending was more brutal than I expected.
Sure was, a shocker.
British Leyland knew all about quality, how else would they have been so thoroughly able to avoid it at every opportunity ?
Unions.
I had a Morris marina never broke down could happen to a lot of cars
@@rat_king- Not just unions ! That is a favorite escape goat,as a way to fight of idea of unions and it worked pretty well ! But no,pretty much Leyland did not know what the fck they were doing and that with the dissatisfied unions made it crash . If unions realized that things were not going well and pulled their all,waited with their demands until there was a better time,yeah they MIGHT have had a chance . Had some great ideas,lot of bad ideas and divided in every step . That is why specialists that went for Hyundai were surprised how well and organized a car company can be . Just how Japanese were astonished how badly Leyland was run .
I had an Austin Maxi 1500 given to me by my Mom's friend. FEA764T. Over nearly 10 years with no problems at all.
Funny how every single book about the world's worst cars always has a Marina in them. Design faults were too many to mention.
"Start giving a shit about your work or you might kill a baby." Great motivation there, BL management.
You know it's bad when a corporation has to result to killing people in films about build quality
speaks of desperation. it was a sinking ship and they knew it.
A lot of people saying this was supposed to be a Leyland PR film, are you dense? It's clear to me that this video was NEVER made for outside consumption. As a piece of film making it's a good effort and very watchable, but it was clearly designed to be viewed by Leyland employees and trainees at the time to shock them into diligence. As history has proved I doubt it had much of an effect.
Great video, honestly one of the best corporate films I've seen. Judging by the fact that there hasn't been a Leyland car made in close to 30 years, it mustn't have had quite the impact they were hoping for.
This video is classic! Times sure have changed. That poor baby at the end though, brutal!
That was amazing! better than any film I have seen in the last 10 years in fact and it was a true story!
I didn't think an allegro would move so quickly. Very impressive. Loved the princess too.
What a dark, twisted video, however, a star studded cast. I spotted George Cooper who played Mr Griffiths in Grange Hill, Paul Braber who played Denzil in Only Fools and Horses, Michael Robbins who played Arthur in On the Buses and I think Peter Dean who played Pete Beale in Eastenders. Still, a scary bloody video -- just like most British Leyland cars ever produced.
Where in the film did Peter Dean appear? I missed that bit.
And Cafe owner Sid from last of the summer wine
Also George is David Suchet, Poirot himself.
This video really is brilliantly made. Still just as relevant to factories and production lines today as it was then.
The monologue at the end with people being the "quality connection" between 21:01 and 22:05 also applies to other products, be it bikes, power tools and computers, even media products such as films, tv shows and computer games, people are the "quality connection" between good quality and bad quality, no middlemen and nothing inbetween.
'To Wendy they are just numbers'. I'm sure sleazy Reg would explain it to her pretty head over a Babysham.
An excellent film - thank you for uploading. In today's world the lorry driver who was driving carelessly would probably be rewarded for getting the job done quickly and Ted would be reprimanded for not completing as many drops and put on to a performance improvement plan . . .
Isn't that the case?
This film took 5 years to make, red robbo kept calling them out on strike.
All Leyland cars were guaranteed. Guaranteed to break down and rust !!!
As rare as Attenborough footage of a snow leopard, BL workers actually AT WORK...
obviously both events are staged for the video
it ends with saying the cause of the accident was never established. The brakes failed. Pretty easy to discover.
So I guess even the cops are made at British Leyland.
I blame a guy with the cup of tea.
The reason the brakes failed was the copper brake pipe bashed in the factory ,fractured cause brake fluid loss and I think also no dual circuit master cylinder split circuit ,as if you lost a circuit on a modern car the other circuit would still work even after total loss of brake fluid in other circuit
I get the humorous sentiment, but after the accident (and depending where the damage was) I don't think a conclusive reason could be established.
@@sawleyram7405 Exactly. How would you tell - especially with the forensic technology of the time - when the brake damage took place? Damage that happened before the collision could be attributed to the collision itself.
Today, with CCTV, and traffic cameras everywhere, I'd suggest that you could be conclusive. Follow the vehicle back on CCTV and traffic cameras, and other devices, such as Red Light Cameras. He ran a red light, and appeared to go like crazy. Toxicology would determine if the driver had "chemical assistance" with his driving.
So, what we would have is a sober driver, unaffected by drugs, who was driving like a maniac and appearing to make no attempt to stop. Let's say we got really lucky with the cameras and caught a decent look at the back of the car as it was going out of control. That would show activated brake lights, but no braking. If you see that, you have conclusive proof of brake failure.
@@sheriff0017 Yes I think you've hit it spot on and that's exactly how I'd view it. I can't think of anything available to them at the scene of the accident (then) which would have put the cause down to brake failure -- there'd be no way of knowing where and when a nick in a copper pipe was caused.
Thank you for uploading. This movie could be used for Human Factors Training, simply because Humans have not changed very much since 1964, nor management has.
I bought a brand new Triumph TR6 in 1972. On driving it out of the dealership, the final drive dropped out of the back. The car hadn't even gone 50 yards. One year later, I bought a new Triumph Stag. (I'm slow to learn). It went through 7, yes, seven cylinder heads in the following 18 months. That's the last time I ever bought a Leyland car. I had Fords after that and they were way more reliable.
I got to say man that's some strong brand loyalty to go through 7 cylinder head replacements before throwing in the towel.
I had a Morris marina never broke down could happen to a lot of cars I had a Nissan once the same thing happened luckily never killed nobody I had a Ford Zodiac and it would never start on a cold day just strengthen it is not only British Leyland
Madeline Smith: PHWOAR!!
Such a reflection reality the scene as he drives away from the 'accident'.
Worked alongside a an ex employee of a bearing manufacturer in Plymouth, he made them for both Rolls Royce and Toyota, guess who had the stricter quality requirements!
No wonder we've lost all our manufacturing!
This would have been shown to staff at BL, to say step up quality and keep
your mind on the job... Or this will happen... Great film.... Really enjoyed it!
I think it should've been. It would've given BL a reason to improve quality and safety on the job.
Too bad they didn't listen...
"Shouldn't have been drunk........ not at this time of day anyway" 🤣
Leyland cars - the best automobiles to control population growth.
Shhh, don't tell Bill Gates he'll be all over it and buy shares.
Dammit Wendy! You mistyped the numbers, gave the blokes the parts that didn't fit and walked through the factory causing the whole operation to fall apart! There's no more British Leyland because of WENDY!!
Poor bastard!
lol
Good bit of equality there, the female getting blame, makes a change as it's normally the men on floor getting blamed
James Bond had her in his wardrobe. Damn that magnetic watch.
Wendy...a well foxy chick🤣🤣
all star cast , must have cost a fortune, that they don't have!!!!!!
Didn't have. That's 45 years old. Actors didn't earn a lot then either.
Brilliant script and great directors and actors work!
He must not care much about price since he can just leave hats behind 2:38
@20.07 "Something wrong with this lot as well? Looks like a right hospital." LOL
The voice over is so funny
20:53 Detective Chief Inspector James Harold Japp: "Oh how just Poirot has not seen this in 5:16?!?"
Mr Griffiths from Grange Hill had his pre delivery inspection done by Mr Lucas from Are you Being Served . I wonder if Poirot was the accident investigator ?
Poirot signed off the design! 5:25
For those of a certain age don’t forget Nigel the designer, aka Adam Chance from Crossroads
@@yellowbelly06 That's Dr Neville Bywaters from General Hospital for some of us...
So many stars! Can’t forget Denzel from Only Fools!
19:33 - Don't worry about the gear ratios, they'll ride up with wear.
And don't worry about the paint being too bright, it'll wash out in the rain.
Great title, Quality Connection, the one single thing that British Leyland, or whatever name they use today, never ever got even nearly right. Quality.
Arthur worked at Leyland? Did Olive know that?
I notice that they had to speed up the film of the Allegro Police Car at the start )))
Mr. Lucas and Monsieur Poirot in the same film! COOL!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍 😀😀😀😀😀
That was like the cast of a Confessions film. Confessions Of A Leyland Worker.
John B. It's probably on RUclips, I'm sure. 😆
Wow - it's a roll call of well known 70s actors. I never realised that Poirot started out in a drawing office at Longbridge.
Did he say "Poor Bastard" at the end there?
Yes he did.
There were a lot of contributing factors to it's demise and I agree a small part but diligence still factored into it.
"There are three and a half thousand parts to that car. And they're all shit."
British Leyland attacking themselves. Now there's a novelty.
Just to add to my original comment, wasn't the driver of the Allegro towards the end the same one who featured in the 'Blunders Clunk-Click' PIF feature driving a MkII Triumph 2000/2500 which crashes into a wall & flies through the windscreen? (That was Billy Blunders driving his Dad's 1100/1300)
Didn't know Denzil worked in the BL machine shop before he became a truckie...
Thank you for uploading very interesting its a shame really as britian was. Aleader but look at us now
The motto: If you're going to piss off a customer, at least make sure you kill him and his potential offspring so he NEVER talks. Don't fuck around with PR, just terrify people instead. Somewhere, out there, there's a BL car with your name on the bonnet...
11:56 Denzil!... from Only fools!...& Arthur from On the buses!
Mick from brookside am thinkin
Congratulations on the film. This explains a lot from BL cars.
I had a Morris marina never broke down could happen to a lot of cars
I had a Nissan once the same thing happened luckily never killed nobody just strengthen it is not only British Leyland
11:05 that's one hell of a comb over.
Seen again. Made the the same strong impression on me as before.
Although no longer manufacturers of motor vehicles in Britain, Leyland re-established itself in China, where it provides quality control in everything from plastic toys to electrical products.
I think Trevor Bannister from Are You Being Served was the techician looking over the Jaguar in the dealer garage......
I think you're right, good sir...
He's also in series one of the Professionals :D
Superb upload, any more Leyland films?
Seat wont lock in the dolly then the door wont open in the jag.the message was there to walk away
That man is lucky a piano did not fall on his car XD
What's this British Central Casting?
And Phillip Jackson worked in a Leyland dealer! (Chief Inspector Japp from the ITV Poirot series).
11:33 Denzel from Only fools and Horses and Arthur from on the buses!
Did I hear the voice of Mr Chomney-Warner on the police car radio?
And Bert was so ****ed off that he left BL and joined On the Buses
Seventies Datsuns broke all previous known records for premature rust..Lancia were also good at dissolving into iron oxide when wet
I always liked the Fiat X1/9, but you never see them nowadays because they all rusted. In their favour European cars at least looked nicer than the Allegro and had hatchbacks.
Yep, but at least they didn't go wrong every Tuesday like most British cars did.
@@AshleyPomeroy In 1962, Opel launched their Kadett A. (Richard Hammond's "Oliver").
This small economy car from West-Germany didn't need any greasing anymore, of bearings etc. Twenty years later, a brand new Jag XJ Series III still had grease fittings.
@@DolleHengst Non servicable ball joints are a double edged sword. I have replaced a great deal of them in my life due to wear, so its not that they didn't require greasing, they did. They just end up getting thrown out instead of lubricated. Trouble is, more people than I am comfortable with found out their ball joint was bad when the wheel came off.
The cars I have had that had greasble joints were perfectly good, most of them quite tight after 30+ years or 200,000+ miles. An advantage to servicable fittings is that if the boot is blown, you can grease them monthly and they'll hold up for years like that. I've never had to replace a servicable joint.
Just an abject lesson in what inept and intransigent management can do to a company. A brilliant training film. But enough to make any Midlander of a certain age to weep. Longbridge was an important part of Birmingham and the Black Country and should have been saved. Just when the factory found it's feet it was thrown away along with tens of thousands of livelihoods.BL got a lot of stick. Much deserved. But many foreign cars at the time suffered appalling quality issues. Even German marques today have poor build quality ( original T5 transporter ) and reliability issues ( Mercedes/Bosch electrics circa 2000 ) . And what about VW ripping off it's customers about emissions?
Many automotive technologies, that still exist today, were born out of Longbridge and it's other BMCgroup factories.
Even decades later, you still find people living in denial.
@@stejer211 I am the owner of a 1977 BL car and it is still a daily driver so go figure that one ou?t as denial sometimes is reality when you see cars scrapped from 2005 manufacture date these days :)
@@Polecat54941 Congratulations, you have found the exception to the rule.
BL was run by a completely inept management. The workforce spent most of the 1970's being on strike. Whatever cars were built in between strikes had a horrible build quality - no wonder it drove customers into the arms of the competition. To me that is not a company worth saving.
@@pilskadden ? But that wasn’t the company that was Rover Group?
By 2005 Longbridge was an efficient factory. It had the stamp of Honda and then BMW on it.
Of all people the Labour Party threw it to the dogs. Those 2 huge Birmingham plants could have been making batteries and building cars under the same roof. All the ancillary jobs lost in the Black Country. It was an act of social vandalism to close it down.
The car factory that invented the Mini that is thriving right now.
Most cars of the time where the same.its a fact the British love to put them selves down well done to all concerned your wish was granted.
Ah - not Japanese cars...those guys were trying really hard in the 1970s: Colt Lancer / Galant, Datsun, Mazda, Isuzu Gemini, Subaru and Toyota...all great cars that were properly built.
Allegro with brake fault causes accident. Police show up in.....an Allegro! Good well made film - unlike the cars.
My wife has a 62 plate Nissan Juke .it has gone wrong more than my 1978 MG B. I dont believe in conspiracy's but it does seem odd that we dont have any Heavy industries left. I think we have been hoodwinked
Alas, Nissan has been taken over by Renault years ago and, unsurprisingly, quality dropped. Monsieur Ghosn said it loud and clear: PROFITS FIRST. Get rid of that faulty Junkie and buy a Toyota.
“Leyland Quality”, well there’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one
The gospel according to St. Nigel Ha 6:15
There's something a bit strange with the police Allegro at the start. It has old-fashioned wing mirrors, yet I'm pretty certain they came with door mirrors right from the model's launch in 1973. Perhaps the appropriate parts bin was empty on assembly day and they just bunged on a pair of wings from some other, older model?
I noticed what appeared to be mounting holes near the passenger side wind-wing/vent window, questioning why, and then later realized the mirrors were affixed to the actual wings/fenders. As others have noted, I also asked myself where the ubiquitous roof beacon was.
Trevor Bannister, Mr. Lucas on Are You Being Served, is the car mechanic
1:00 to 1:15- goes on about car safety.
1:16- drives off without putting a seatbelt on.
Shocking as it may be from todays point of view: Those cars simply had none, at least not in the back. Remember when my parents bought a car second hand in the early 80s (buid ca, 75) they had them retrofitted so my child seat could be mounted. Front seat belts became standard in the 70s, back took quite a while longer.
From Wikipedia about seatbelts in the UK: "Front seat belts were compulsory equipment on all new cars registered in the UK from 1972, although it did not become compulsory for them to be worn until 1983. Rear seat belts were compulsory equipment from 1986 and became compulsory for them to be worn in 1991"
@@christiankolinski1563 I had a 1983 Maestro 1.3L ,(for my sins), in 1990. No rear belts fitted.
Nevertheless, British car brands remaines eminent and lucrative among auto industry.
So, THAT'S how Leyland shut the mouths of dissatisfied owners. "Just send an Allegro after him, that'll teach him"!
The consumers can't complain if they're dead
Extraordinary. If I'd just seen the script only I'd have guessed it was from the 1920s.
At least he was able to shut the door 1st time
This is a treasure trove of U.K. actors before they found further fame/were famous. There’s:
Mr Griffiths from Grange Hill
Adam Chance from Crossroads
Poirot
Who assisted Inspector Japp (the salesman)
Denzil from Only Fools
Mr Lucas from Are you Being Served?
Madeline Smith
Sid from the cafe in Last of the Summer Wine
Arthur from On The Buses
Eric Duffy from Please Sir!
And several character actors
I think that was Trevor Bannister.
Before Crossroads Adam also worked for BL. Well I never!
9:44 - I wonder if the "point double-O this and point double-O that" was a sly in joke the script writers put in as a reference to Madeline Smith's (Wendy) previous role as Miss Caruso in Roger Moore's first 007 flick Live and Let Die?
BL presents "carry on car making"
Continual improvement is not in the culture in the UK. It's got better over the years but it's still a major problem for this country. It's funny how the nation debates the causes of poor productivity but never gets to the real heart of it. A lack of teamwork and desire for continuous improvement
I bet they showed this to new employees to spark initiative in them, encouraging them to bring up problems, but they would have just been shut down anyway, and their ideas stolen by their boss. Sometimes problems in a company run so deep.
Whoever made this film should have made the cars as well.
No wonder the cars were crap with all these actors moonlighting to supplement their incomes. ;o)
The proven best British Leyland car the Austin Princess. Just ask James May.
@5:23, is that David Suchet?
Sure is.
11.45 its Denzil before only fools and horses
I see Mr Lucas was giving the Jaguar a once over maybe he should go back to Grace Bros
Did they do anywork I mean I rampant Left Wing but they took it abit far. Best car they made was the XJ6.
David Suchet (a.k.a. Poirot) at 5mins 14 sec
Spot the famous actor Haha
4m 27 gearbox syncrohub
I just took delivery of a modern day successor to those BL products - an MG3 HYBRID Trophy. Everything on it all works, but then of course this MG like all current MG s is built in China Who now own the MG brand. Truth is back when that video was made nobody believed that poor quality would see the eventual collapse of British owned mass car production.
Unfortunately an example of what happened to all British industry!
Hercules Poirot at 5:22 😂
Left in an Allegro arrived in a mk2 Escort, says it all🤣
11:41 denzil niche working for bl
13:53!!!!
The police car in the first minute of the vid had a siren but no blue light on the roof??? Srsly???
It fell off.
An Allegro. Amazing it got there.
George in the drawing office looks like a mass murderer
David Suchet in detective story "Who killed British Leyland?". And the murderer is.....