188:. Plastow joined in: in 1978 David Plastow, chief Executive of a company dependent on larger models, in an address to an international audience at Detroit, described as "...dangerous nonsense ... ... legislators or bureaucrats in either country that it is good to level down to a basic type of car....Man continually seeks a better way of life. He is constantly climbing out of one situation upwards into the next, and the symbol of his success during most of this century has often been the type of car he drives".
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went into liquidation and was for a period nationalised. The financial problems were blamed on the aero-engine division, however, and at the start of 1971 Plastow, from the automobile division, replaced
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in 1950 as an apprentice, and within seven years had worked his way up to the position of sales manager. In 1958 he switched to Rolls-Royce where he worked on the commercial side of the company for the
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was established as a separate entity in 1972, Plastow became its chairman. He became a director of
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299:: Interview with Rolls-Royce boss David Plastow".
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