Talk:British Motor Corporation (Australia)

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Morris Mini Deluxe[edit]

You refer to this as an 'Australia-only' model - but that's not really true. There were Morris Mini Deluxe's (and Austin Mini Deluxe's) made in the UK too - I happen to own one - so I know this for sure! The difference between the standard Mini and the Deluxe were pretty minimal in the UK and certainly there were many differences between the Australian Deluxe and the UK deluxe - but there were differences from year-to-year and from factory-to-factory throughout the Mini's life. I think it goes a bit far to describe it as a different model. SteveBaker (talk) 22:13, 5 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tariffs[edit]

When (if?) I was growing up, we (in England) were told that the rationale behind BMC having a plant in Australia was to avoid high import tariffs. A constant imperative was to have a "local content" level above a certain %, though no doubt endless hours of otherwise productive time were devoted to arguments about how you define local content. I think I may have read something similar concerning the decision to establish Holden at (I think) Elizabeth, SA. But maybe this was just special pleading by BMC (and GM) who were never slow to look for external scapegoats when ... (bad) stuff happened.

Anyhow, it would be interesting if someone with appropriate (preferably Australian) sources could add a bit about how (or whether) protectionist government policies impacted the company's decisions over the years. Back in England it's perfectly clear that the principal reason for BMC's collapse into BLMC and the subsequent demise of BLMC had to do with cars that didn't find enough customers at the "right" prices. But at the same time (early 1970s) a succession of B(L)MC overseas manufacturing companies / plants (Australia, Belgium, Spain..) seem to have stopped making sense following a period during which international tariff barriers were coming down (something to do with followup to the Kennedy round? of trade negotiations).

Thank to anyone able to input a few lines on the role of (allegedly protectionist) government policies in steering BMC Aus.

Regards Charles01 (talk)

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