B.M.C. to Centralize Production Management
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A'part of the £25m. expansion laid modernization project embarked upon in 1954, the British Motor Corporation are to centralize all production management in a new engineering block at\the Austin works in Birmingham.
All production engineering will be concentrated in the ,lock, leaving engineers at individual factories to devote the whole of their time to their own problems. Once they have developed and tested prototypes of new models, the staff at the new block will take over and put in hand all further work, such as preparation of
drawings and manufacturing specifications for large-scale pl-oduction.
Some £.2m. is being spent on new plant and buildings at the tractor and transmissions branch in Birmingham, about a third of which is already occupied.It houses the biggest gearcutting shop in Europe, with machines capable of making two rear-axle cases a minute. When completed it will have :Elm. worth of machine tools.
At the bodybuilding plant of Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd., Vim. is being spent on new presses for an increased output which will rise to 2,500 bodies a week.