With 387 produced, the 146/RJ was a success in my view.
The property-value-driven decision to close Hatfield, where we had a purpose-built final assembly building, and move all the 146 production to Woodford (where they were building them in less happy conditions) was not very clever, but kept it going for a decade or more.
Woodford, like Hatfield, is now a classic example of the folly of current planning where houses are built on "brown field sites" which would once have provided the employment for those living in the existing houses that surround the employment-free new development. Where will those living in the new houses work, and why not build the new houses there?
Last edited by Allan Lupton; 9th Feb 2015 at 09:39.
Reason: typos