History of Renault, Dodge and Karrier Motors, Part 2

Here is a little info on how the goverment helped chrysler uk

This is volume II of a three volume report,

on the Government's decision of 16 December 1975 that Chrysler United Kingdom (CUK)
is to retain certain of its operations in this country in a reorganised form.
This volume contains a list of witnesses, memoranda, and appendices and the minutes
of evidence for 14 January 1976 to 7 April 1976.

The Department of Industry handled the consultation with CUK about its plans for the future,
and in July 1975 discussions began about the possibility of financial assistance under the
Industry Act 1972, for a new model programme. In October, the Government learnt of
Chrysler's plans to withdraw from this country from reports of a press conference held by the
Chairman of Chrysler Corporation, Mr Riccardo.

There followed a series of Ministerial and official meetings with representatives of Chrysler,
the Prime Minister, the Paymaster General, and the Secretary of State for Industry.

There were two options open to transfer the complete ownership of CUK to the Government or to
transfer the majority interest to the Government with Chrysler retaining a minority interest.

Without a mutually acceptable solution Chrysler would close operations in this country
within 3 months, from November 1975.

The workforce of 25,000 would be made redundant and other redundancies would occur in firms
engaged in the supply and distribution industries, and this would cost an estimated £150 million

of public funds, with consequent losses also in the balance of payments.

The plan ultimately agreed between the Government and the Chrysler Corporation involved 8,000
redundancies, leaving 17,000 workers in the plants to fulfil contracts, and a potential financial
commitment of £162.5 million over the period up to and including 1979.

Some info on where the plant might have gone when sold off in 1994 but only references
are to the renault traffic

This is some of what i have found, The vehicle in question is the Renault Traffic.

"Renault's 45 percent-owned joint venture with the Sanjiang Group is located, analysts said. Sanjiang
-Renault Automotive Co. was formed in 1993
to make the Trafic van. Production was suspended because of poor sales.
The venture sold a total of 4,906 Trafic vans in the past seven years, according to data from DRI,
a research company."

From

http://www.detnews.com/2002/autosinsider/0203/19/autos-444404.htm

A joint venture in China that Renault launched in 1993 with Sanjiang, a Chinese aerospace company, to
produce the Trafic light commercial vehicle was unsuccessful. Production stopped last year. Now Renault, Europe's third largest automaker, is ready to try again.

From

http://www.catiaworld.com/lang1/mem/news/stories/auto/0704%20July/0712%20Renault%20
jumps%20 back%20on%20the%20China%20bandwagon.htm

And the only contact i have found was on a french site

Sanjiang Renault
It is into 1993 that the joint company Sanjiang Renault Automotive Company (SRAC) was created,
following the industrial agreement with China Sanjiang Groupe.

Address: P.O. box 26, Xiaogan 432100
Tel.: (86) 712 232 2539
Fax: (86) 712 232 2247

from

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.ambafrance-cn.org/fr/
showdetail.php%3Fmenu_id%3D00703%26story_id%3D5&prev=/search%3Fq%
3DSanjiang%2BRenault%2BAutomotive%2BCompany%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

karried onto another plain...aahhhi have no idea at the moment if that was about french or english stuff.

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