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Newswheel staff :: 07 February 2007 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, TVR, Europe & UK
The finer details of TVR’s recent history are approaching encyclopaedic proportions. However, it appears the Smolenski chapter of the saga may be drawing to a close. The receivers of the production arm of TVR, known as Blackpool Automotive, have revealed that Smolenski and Co. may not have retained the trademark rights to TVR after all, leaving the Russian with little, if any, ownership or involvement with TVR…
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Newswheel staff :: 01 November 2006 :: Filed under TVR, Europe & UK
They’re angry and they’re not going to take it anymore. Disugusted, disgruntled and dejected (pick a d-word) TVR owners are planning to descend on the company’s Blackpool facility this Friday to demonstrate their support for TVR’s soon-to-be-redundant workforce and their opposition to plans to move manufacturing of the hairy British sports cars to Italy…
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Newswheel staff :: 18 October 2006 :: Filed under TVR, Europe & UK
It’s not quite curtains for TVR. But it is the end of the
Blackpool-based sports car maker as we know it. TVR has announced plans
to cease production of cars in the UK with the loss of 250 jobs from
its Blackpool facility. The company said all production will be
outsourced, with chassis and body production going to unnamed European
third parties and engine production remaining in the UK…
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Newswheel staff :: 25 April 2006 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, TVR, Europe & UK
We knew things weren’t exactly rosy over at TVR’s Bispham, Blackpool facility. But we didn’t realise quite how bad the situation had become. Until yesterday, that is. TVR announced that 71 workers, representing around a quarter of its current workforce, were being laid off with immediate effect. But the much more worrying news is that the factory itself will be closed within the next six months, with the remaining workers offered voluntary redundancy…
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