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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Colin 009 on April 24, 2006, 19:29:53

Title: TVR
Post by: Colin 009 on April 24, 2006, 19:29:53

Could it be the end for TVR, on the news, they've told a load of staff not to come in to work?. Its said that they only make two cars a week now. :shock:

Title: TVR
Post by: dew1911 on April 24, 2006, 19:33:40

According to the BBC but on PH it reads
Quote:
Factory to close after relocation


Factory to close as TVR carries on
Contrary to current rumours, TVR is not closing: instead, it plans to leave the current factory at Blackpool's Bristol Avenue within six months, according to a company spokesman. The new premises will be "somewhere in the region", he said. He couldn't say why the factory had to close but confirmed that 71 people were laid off out of a total workforce of around 320.

He added that some assembly may be outsourced, which could mean that it goes abroad, but the spokesman said that nothing had definitely been decided on this issue. "We just want the best future for TVR", he said.

The reason behind the move is that "TVR has had a long winter. People normally start to get interested in cars before this time of year", he said, but instead, sales had been slow. "We're currently making 10 cars a week," he said.

Last week, TVR spokesman Ian Law said that TVR remains optimistic that its plans to expand in the Middle and Far East, will help to pull it out of the problems created by slow domestic demand. In addition, Law reckoned that we're in for some big surprises at the British Motor Show in July.

Elsewhere, local paper Blackpool Today is reporting that the workers' union, the TGWU, slammed TVR for the way it handled the news, with the local senior shop steward calling the company "cowardly" for its management of the announcement.

One worker is reported to have said: "I've no idea what the future holds now."

Title: TVR
Post by: Bush Tucker Man on April 24, 2006, 22:30:51

A black day for me :(

I'll have to get a Griffith before they become collectors items

Title: TVR
Post by: on April 24, 2006, 22:40:39

It’s a crying shame

Title: TVR
Post by: ben_haynes on April 24, 2006, 22:42:20

well what do you expect, TVR is owned by some Russian Millionare and he will want to save as much money as possible

My boss owns 2 £100,000 ferrari's and loads of old FIAT's but he still cant afford to give us a pay rise or buy us a decent towrope for breakdowns,

we have to use one that has been tied in the middle because it snaped on a recovery

Title: TVR
Post by: dew1911 on April 25, 2006, 07:04:23

Quote from: "ben_haynes"

we have to use one that has been tied in the middle because it snaped on a recovery

Surley that's not safe.

Title: TVR
Post by: woody on April 25, 2006, 09:00:22

Quote from: "ben_haynes"

well what do you expect, TVR is owned by some Russian Millionare and he will want to save as much money as possible

My boss owns 2 £100,000 ferrari's and loads of old FIAT's but he still cant afford to give us a pay rise or buy us a decent towrope for breakdowns,

we have to use one that has been tied in the middle because it snaped on a recovery

rich people dont get rich by wasting their money on silly thing like pay rises and tow ropes :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: TVR
Post by: ben_haynes on April 26, 2006, 22:31:03

Quote from: "dew1911"

Quote from: "ben_haynes"

we have to use one that has been tied in the middle because it snaped on a recovery

Surley that's not safe.

thats what we keep saying

but i have resorted to using my tow rope (http://www.yellowstrap.com)
Sorry for the plug :lol:  :lol: