And so they should be, the employees at the Washington Datsun plant are better paid than pretty much anyone else in the UK engineering industry, their paintwork is all finished manually as no robots can match the job you get from trained Mackems, they have a canteen that serves better food than many a Michelin starred eaterie and - best bit - the factory has its own Classic Car Club or did, since it grew and Spread east to Sunderland where it now prospers as the club behind many of the biggest shows in the south of the region, Ryhope (x2) and Seaburn among those. This suggests (I would say "proves" but some card would only dig out an archaic law that forbids that sort of thing so we'll stick at "suggests") that the payroll includes many pukka enthusiasts which explains why they care about what they do. That, and the way in which they're sacked if any vehicle coming out of the place has so much as a micron's deviance in its panel gaps from the preceding one.tractorman wrote:Indeed; and, according to some friends who worked there, they were exporting British-built Bluebirds to Japan as they were better built than the Japanese ones!rich. wrote:did nissan build the bluebird in the uk?
So explain just one thing then: What exactly did Datsun put in the water supply to force the ordinarily proud folk of Washington to build the godawful POS that is the Juke?
Answering the OP's question; the 1970s, definitely. Because it saw the rise of the unions which demonstrated beautifully that old saying about giving people enough rope....
