Damning stuff about British industry.

[Gibbo2286]

Look at the old actors earning a few quid on this old video.

[Paul-R]

I really enjoyed that, thanks Gibbo. Spotting, and then naming, the actors involved is meat and drink to me. I think I did pretty well although a few names escaped me. For example Peter Cleall (Please Sir!) I recognised but couldn't pull his name out. Thank goodness for the cast list at the end.

One has to wonder what was in it for Leyland cars though. They must have put a fair amount of money into making this but it didn't really show them in a good light. I presume it was intended for internal use to train people that there are consequences to poor quality.

[bobins]

It was an interesting (internal) corporate film, but it just goes to show that nothing has been learned. Cars still roll off the production line to this day with faulty components built to the wrong spec or with dangerous parts fitted - just ask Stellantis

[mickthemaverick]

I quite enjoyed watching that Gibbo despite the rather sombre outcome. I remember seeing a similarly themed video from John Cleese's management training collection regarding the importance of quality. I thought it was an old extract from Z Cars after the opening scene with John Watt running the show!

[Paul-R]

Aye. And meeting up with Bert Lynch - who didn't have a lot to say here.

[bobins]

On the subjest of quality control, I was watching a Youtube the other week about the MV Dali that crashed into that bridge in Baltimore in March '24. It would appear the root cause of the accident was probably a wiring issue....
Where signal wires entered a connector block, each one was terminated with a crimped ferrule with an ID sleeve above the ferrule so the wires could be traced. One of these ID sleeves had slid down over the ferrule and prevented the wire end correctly seating in the connector block...... which over time has loosened...... and had eventually caused a power failure.... which showed up bad management practices...... which caused the ship to crash into the bridge. One of the commenters below the video made the point that the cause of the crash lay either in the design office or the quality control dept. when the ship was built - the ID sleeves should have been spec'd so it was impossible for them to slip down over the ferrules, either that, or the quality control dept. never noticed the wrong ID sleeves were fitted.

[Gibbo2286]

The most notable thing for me was Wendy's waistline, don't see many that slim anymore.

[bobins]

In relation to the first post



Who remember that when it first came out ?