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 elbowgeek
 
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 |  | Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
< on 11/16/2005 10:56 PM >
|  | | | Well dang me, the Telegraph online has photos of the now-vacant Rover plant up. You can see them at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
You may have to register, but it's free. Go to the link on the lower right labeled Rover's Broken Dreams. The picture credits appear to be a person/organisation called RADDOGEXTREME/OXYGEN THIEF. Is that someone on these boards?
Pretty cool pictures, but hugely ironic that they are appearing in such a mainstream publication.
Cheers
Dennis
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Jondoe_264
  
Location: Under . . .
Gender: Male
Yes! Sewers!
| |  | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 1 on 11/17/2005 1:23 AM >
| | | | Not sure if they're on these boards? I don't think so? They run their own forum, one of them does, Oxygen Thief. They had a massive response to the Rover thread on their forum, which featured pics of their exploration. The interest was mostly from car enthusiasts who linked to the thread from automotive related forums. I guess nobody saw that coming? Quite an unprecedented response to an interesting industrial location, but ultimately no more interesting than many similar others. It seems to be the automotive fraternity that's drawn the media attention?
There appears to be no link back to their forum or them as individuals on the Telegraph site, nor any mention of UE as such.
JD
". . . for this purpose the plans of Mr.Bazalgette are most effective."
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wooble
Location: Surrey, UK
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 2 on 11/17/2005 10:45 AM >
| | | | The telegraph journalist stole those pictures from the site (28dayslater.co.uk)where they were posted, without asking permission. The photos have also been published in the UK edition of this month's Auto Express, but they asked permission, at least.
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Oxygen Thief
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 3 on 11/17/2005 10:33 PM >
| | | | Hi everyone.
Myself and fellow explorer raddog from www.28dayslater.co.uk gained access to the rover factory and took those pictures. We just posted them on the forum as we would any other location. The response has been amazing - it has had over 80,000 views to date.
Recently we have done bigger better sites (probably) but this one quickly spread through the auto forums and further.
The UK weekly 'autoexpress' kindly asked permission, but the telegraph didn't bother. At least they credited the pictures to us.
Regards
OT
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siologen
Location: Melbourne, Australia.
I Go Where The Drains Are
| | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 4 on 11/18/2005 8:04 AM >
| | | | LOL, you guys didnt happen to find any old Austin Princesses(the wedge shaped ones) or Austin Allegros there did ya? Its all British Leyland so ya never know...
Sweeet!
S///
Big Drayyynes!
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lilli
Location: Surrey UK
Gender: Female
Aunt - Replace A with C
| |  | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 5 on 11/18/2005 1:30 PM >
| | | | Hey OT nice to see you here! 
One of the pictures taken of the Longbridge plant, taken by raddog is now the centre spread in todays Guardian!
lilli
[last edit 11/18/2005 1:31 PM by lilli - edited 1 times]
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Raddog
| | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 6 on 11/24/2005 8:44 PM >
| | | | Loved the Guardian image:
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TurboZutek
King Dick
Location: Scotland
Gender: Male
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| |  | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 7 on 11/25/2005 10:48 PM >
| | | | 
Rover Metro'd!!
[last edit 11/25/2005 10:49 PM by TurboZutek - edited 1 times]
We all had ostriches. My dad had an ostrich farm! I remember one day someone came in and said the high altitude bombing of Kosovo had been a limited success, so we all went out and celebrated… by killing an ostrich and boiling it in kiwi fruit. |
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lost
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| |  | | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 8 on 12/4/2005 2:28 PM >
| | | | A pretty awesome location, even more fascinating since my own car was built there. I wonder if anything will ever be built there again, since the land underneath the factory was sold and MG-R's new owners might not be interested in taking it on.
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Jondoe_264
Location: Under . . .
Gender: Male
Yes! Sewers!
| | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 9 on 12/22/2005 4:54 PM >
| | | | The thread which lead to this press exposure has recently been removed from the forum in question and replaced with a locked thread detailing reasons for its removal. Reason being the receipt of a letter by the forum Admin from the MG Rover Group insisting on removal of all company premises images and requesting all name and address details for those people who made the images available. LOL! Because forum Admin hold the full and true names, addresses and telephone numbers for all their members don't they!
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=208
-- Jonathon Doe --
". . . for this purpose the plans of Mr.Bazalgette are most effective."
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YUL85
| | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 10 on 1/7/2006 9:33 AM >
| | | | ragdog, ot, lilimouse.....the ue's world is so small....
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Pgcc
Location: Glasgow Scotland
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 11 on 1/7/2006 12:40 PM >
| | | | Posted by Jondoe_264
Reason being the receipt of a letter by the forum Admin from the MG Rover Group insisting on removal of all company premises images and requesting all name and address details for those people who made the images available.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=208
-- Jonathon Doe --
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Not even a mention of a reward? ...the miserable MG bastards! Lol 
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ExploringOhio
Location: Hamilton, Ohio
Gender: Male
| | | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 12 on 1/10/2006 12:11 AM >
| | | | Did they actually leave the cars sitting on the bloody assembly line?!?! I've never seen that one before! haha Are those the MG ZS/Rover 75 series i see in the 2nd pic? Id like to know if i can identify british cars at bad angles before they're complete. . . lol (my guess is soley based on the rear-quarter-window)
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Spence
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| |  |  | | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 13 on 10/20/2006 9:53 PM >
| | | | Anyone have more pics? The link i see doesnt go to the rover factory.
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lilli
Location: Surrey UK
Gender: Female
Aunt - Replace A with C
| | | | Re: Pictures of the Rover plant... in a mainstream UK paper!
<Reply # 14 on 10/23/2006 9:08 AM >
| | | | Things must have got moved about as happens from time to time
The original Rover/Longbridge thread can be found here
http://www.28daysl...78&highlight=Rover
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