Rover and its German parent BMW are seeking £60m in government aid to help secure a £400m engine plant at Hams Hall, between Birmingham and Coventry, in the West Midlands.
Rover hopes trade and industry secretary Ian Lang will announce support as early as next week. But it fears it might still lose out to an Austrian or East European plant. This would jeopardise jobs at its Longbridge and Solihull works.
The plant would employ 2,000 with many posts filled by transfers from Longbridge and Solihull.
- Financial Times 30/09/96 page 8
- The Times 30/09/96 page 44
- The Independent 30/09/96 page 18
