> Great videos all three. If you'd like to read about it in more detail and
> get the wide-lens perspective, track down a copy, libraries only, of Timothy
> R. Whisler's "*At the End of the Road: The Rise and Fall of Austin-Healey,
> MG and Triumph Sports Cars"*
> must be a really good book - Amazon lists a used copy from vendor Picasso
> Books for $925
> - yeah, that's nine hundred twenty five dollars
>
> Cheers,
> Jack Mc
Read it but its only a bit of the story. IMHO the best of all the books
written about BL is "The
Leyland Papers" by Graham Turner. Graham knows his subject back to front,
inside out and upside
down. Turner tells it absolutely how it was. I still dip into my copy and
occasionally you see a
copy coming up on ebay or through Amazon. Get it if you can. It's an excellent
reference.
Absolutely NFI but if anyone wants an objective and impartial view about the
last days of BL at the
Longbridge Plant (and lots of history before that) Barney Sharratt's book,
"Motors and Men of The
Austin" is another outstanding read. Copiously illustrated with archive photos,
Sharratt, like
Turner, pulls no punches and you'll see one especially high-profile ex
Standard-Triumph person who
was moved to Longbridge getting a less than glowing report. IMHO, what Sharratt
says is spot-on!
I'm beginning to sound like a book salesman, now.
Type Gillian Bardsley into Google and see what comes up. Gillian is the Head
Archivist at BMIHT
Gaydon who I worked with closely when I was there. She's done some excellent
little books about
Austin and Morris. The thing is, videos about the demise of the industry in the
UK often give an
inaccurate slant and if you believe the Gospel according to Saint Jeremy
Clarkson, it'll all become
gobbledegook overnight. Watching videos is one thing for a wholly biased view,
so quite a number of
books need to be read for 'triangulation' of the subject and you have to look
at the whole industry
/ the whole of BL / and not just Triumph to work out how it happened and why.
Jonmac
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