Aston needs workers
The revival of the Brit* ish Aston Martin company continues, and the company announced this week that its entire production of luxury sports cars for 1979 and part of 1980 has already been sold.
Mi- Alan Curtis, managing director of Aston Martin Lagonda, said ruefully at the British Motor Show that the company had to turn down a S2M deal from Japan because it could not fill it.
The company is turning out sevent £20,000 VBs and £32.000 Lagondas each week but cannot increase this number because of a shortage of skilled labour.
Another British car revelling in an upturn in fortune is MG, which has been under threat of ext i n c t i o n from the Triumph-dominated regime at British Leyland for years.
The Leyland assembly plant at Abingdon-on-Thames has reverted to being called the MG plant as part of the aim of British Leyland’s chairman (Mr Michael Edwardes) to restore the individuality of the group’s car marques.
MG will continue to produce the 16-year-old MGB and the 18-year-old Midget and the MGB will eventually be powered by an uprated version of British Leyland’s new O type overhead-camshaft engine, and will compete on the market with the new softtop Triumph TR7.
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Press, 30 November 1978, Page 19
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