The sorry decline of British Leyland, with Richard Bremner #191
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel are joined by Ti contributor Richard Bremner, an expert on the British automotive industry. They discuss Britain's mass market car manufacturer – the British Motor Corporation, later British Leyland and eventually MG Rover – and how a world-beating car maker was gradually reduced to nothing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Hi everyone, welcome to episode 191 of the Intercooler Podcast with me Dan Prosser, |
| 0:11.6 | Andrew Frank and my co-host and a guest this week, |
| 0:14.6 | Richard Brebner, a car journalist, |
| 0:16.2 | one of our contributors at the Intercooler. |
| 0:18.7 | And this week we're talking about the decline |
| 0:21.5 | and collapse of British Leyland, formerly British Motor Corporation, which became |
| 0:27.1 | Rover, MG Rover, it's all very complicated, but we try to tell the full story of it, which probably explains why this is one of the longest |
| 0:35.6 | podcast episodes we've ever done. |
| 0:38.7 | So it's a bit of a bumper episode which is good actually because we're not around next |
| 0:42.3 | week, we're taking a week off for Christmas |
| 0:45.0 | so this is a bit of an extended episode to make up for it I suppose. |
| 0:50.0 | So I hope you enjoy listening. Before we get started I'm just going to remind you all |
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