Sir Geoffrey Whalen obituary
One of the leading figures in the UK motor industry who tried to turn British Leyland around and later became managing director of Peugeot Talbot in CoventryOne of the heroes of the British motor industry in the late 20th century, Sir Geoffrey Whalen, who has died aged 90, was bloodied in the interminable, but ultimately futile, battle to make British Leyland succeed, yet his achievement was to keep mass-market car manufacturing alive in Coventry for an extra 20 years from…
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