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NZPA London Rover car production is to be stepped up to 1000 cars a week at the Cowley. Oxford, plant in the next few weeks because of increasing demand. Austin Rover has announced. Six out of every 10 of the Rovers will be automatics with gearboxes supplied by General Motors from its factory in Strasbourg. Austin Rover said it had switched from the American firm Borg Warner in South Wales — the previous suppliers — to General Motors because the deal meant a huge saving in costs.
But. coming on top of BL s link-up with Honda and the use of imported gearboxes for the Maestro, the move has been criticised both by the trade unions and the British components manufacturers. John Barker. Birmingham district secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, said many component firms in the car industry were on the breadline and. faced with further foreign imports, they could go to the wall. Austin Rover said that other firms which had become more competitive had retained their work with the company.
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