" What stuffed Nortons was years of mismanagement. "
1973 Oil Crisis The substantial price increases of 1973–74 largely caught up their incomes to Bretton .... These target industrial governments included the United States, Great Britain, ...
. the New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones Industrial Average benchmark lost ... From a position of 5.1% real GDP growth in 1972, the UK went into recession in ... terms until August 1993—over twenty years after the 1973–74 crash began.
But most of these sales were to the UK motor industry, which limped into the 1970s, bedevilled by strikes and falling competitiveness. The years 1973/74 were a nightmare, with the first oil price shock quadrupling oil prices while a three-day working week was introduced in Britain to save power when the miners went on strike. As GKN’s UK businesses struggled,. . . ..
However, after strikes and a highly publicized factory occupation in 1973, LIP ... 3 An experience in workers' self-management (1973-74); 4 End of the first conflict .... factory, to avoid any risk of the competition obtaining these industrial secrets.
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LIP is a water company , though this could be talking about our NVT friends , strikeingly

similar . Mustve been something in something , or another mega rich fleece the peasants attempt . or international industrial espionage , or financial .
James Bonds Doctor Thingo , attempting to take over the world , perhaps . Note : it took a few decades before the slump was behind . or is that it peaks out every few decades amoungst a decade of depression and disintegration .
Or did they just spend to much time at the pub .

:lol:
Notwithstanding that . Cosworths dont have to bad a record , though every picture tells a story . Look at the faces in this . The Contractor & Contractee . :?
Back to P.W.
zillions of P.W. / Monocoque pictures HERE :
http://www.italian.sakura.ne.jp/bad_toy ... #Monocoque thanking the provider severally .