10 years on - a look back, the Justice for Rover Workers and where are we now?
So it's 10 years.
In April 2005 the gates were locked at Longbridge for the final time and with
it the last British owned major car manufacturer was no more; the largest
site closure in the UK for over 20 years and 6,500 workers were made
redundant.
5 years prior the Phoenix 4 - a consortium led by John Towers OBE along with
Nick Stephenson, Peter Beale and John Edwards bought the company from BMW for
£10, in which they got not only company, lock, stock and barrel bu