BRITAIN'S biggest carmaker exemplified the country's misery in the 1970s. British Leyland, state-owned and subsidy-sodden, produced underpowered rust-buck-ets-when it was working at all. At the heart of the company's misfortunes were the anarchic industrial relations at its biggest plant, Longbridge in Birmingham, stoked by an unofficial union leader who revelled in the nickname "Red Robbo".
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