[UK will cease to have a heavy vehicle…]
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UK will cease to have a heavy vehicle industry at all -or will simply be an assembly base for International Harvester or Cummins.
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The evidence is at hand to prove this. LV management intends to cease engine production at Leyland and buy Harvesters DT 466 engines from the USA and also from International Harvester's large factory at Enasa in Spain.
Similarly, the Cummins engine is to be bought from the US and only assembled in the UK. By "outsourcing" these key items of engineering, Edwardes is destroying not only the UK manufaeturing base but also the irreplaceable generation of Ads for Socialist Organiser events and many campaigns are carried free. Paid ads: 5p per word, £4 per column inch. Send to: Socialist Organiser (What's On), 28 Middle Lane, London N8.
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