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Lucas in Shirley

Malcog

Malcog

proper brummie kid
In 1999 the company I worked at was taken over by TRW. TRW had just bought Lucas, this was the death knell for TRW as the money they paid for Lucas cleaned out TRWs cash, so TRW sold most of Lucas to anyone who would buy it and the asset strippers then sold off some of the most profitable bits of Birminghams manufacturing industry. I only know this as my company was re-located to the old Lucas head office in Shirley.
 
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