IMHO although there were mistakes made by the management of DMC and market forces were against them the single biggest misstep was the change in political parties and control of the British Government. They were no longer sympathetic to DMC and not only did they not help when DMC got into trouble they "helped it along faster downward" by insisting DMC hire all of the people it had promised it would (which caused production to increase) and then withheld loan payments which DMC would have used for operating capital. The proof of how badly the Government turned against DMC is that they forced the company into bankrupcy, sold it for a pittance (they could have made some deal with someone to keep the most modern auto plant in the world active) and then scrapped the dies that could have been worth something to someone. The government was more interested in burying a relic of the previous administration and blaming them for all of the losses. DMC was caught in the middle of a fierce poitical battle and was a casualty along with the hopes of peace in Northern Ireland for 15 years. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Brian McCool" <bjmccool@xxxx> wrote: > If I had to narrow it down to one specific event that brought the company > down, I would say it was the decision in November of 1981 to double > production of cars from 40 a day to 80 a day. The country went into a > recession and had a very bad winter about a month after this, which affected > every car manufacturer negatively, especially DMC. JZD did this partly to > make the company look more impressive right before a planned public offering > of the company's stock that ended up being canceled. By doubling production