From: Dave Plowman (News) on
Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4? All about the
Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so rather one
sided but worth a listen.

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Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW
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From: Rob on
On 12/06/2010 11:02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4? All about the
> Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so rather one
> sided but worth a listen.
>

Yes, I think 'entertainment' more than anything. The stories about
sabotage - coke cans in the doors, loose bolts behind the hub caps -
incredible if true.

Rob
From: Dave Plowman (News) on
In article <4c135e62$0$15106$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
Rob <ngonly(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 11:02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
> > Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4? All about
> > the Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so rather
> > one sided but worth a listen.
> >

> Yes, I think 'entertainment' more than anything. The stories about
> sabotage - coke cans in the doors, loose bolts behind the hub caps -
> incredible if true.

Quentin Wilson likes to be known as a 'hands on' type so I'd guess adds in
all these 'urban myths' as personal experience. And likely embellishes
them. It's always been quite common to find assorted screws etc in a new
car under carpets and so on - but this wasn't deliberate sabotage. That's
not to say it didn't happen - but on so many cars bought at random as he
suggests?

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Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW
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From: Jerry on

"Dave Plowman (News)" <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5126291646dave(a)davenoise.co.uk...
: Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4?
All about the
: Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so
rather one
: sided but worth a listen.
:

Well, the best part of the Montego and Maestro was the VW
gearbox!... :~0
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Regards, Jerry.


From: Jerry on

"Rob" <ngonly(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4c135e62$0$15106$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com...
: On 12/06/2010 11:02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
: > Any one hear 'Uncool Britannia' this morning at 10.30 on R4?
All about the
: > Montego and Maestro, etc. Typical journalistic knocking so
rather one
: > sided but worth a listen.
: >
:
: Yes, I think 'entertainment' more than anything. The stories
about
: sabotage - coke cans in the doors, loose bolts behind the hub
caps -
: incredible if true.
:

I strongly suspect this is urban myth, if disgruntled workers
wanted to sabotage BL (or what ever name it was going by at the
time...) there were far better, less obvious ways to cause
greater annoyance/damage.
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Regards, Jerry.


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