    the austin rover group (abbreviated arg) was a british motor manufacturer. it was formed in 1981 as the mass-market car manufacturing subsidiary of british leyland (bl). it was the result of a comprehensive restructuring programme intended to rescue bl from almost-certain oblivion, and with the triumph, morris, riley and wolseley marques then effectively defunct, the new, leaner car business was rechristened as the austin rover group and focused primarily on the austin and rover marques. in 1989, arg was incorporated into the rover group, the new name of its parent company. in 2008, tata motors purchased the rover marque, as well as former bl and rover group businesses, land rover and jaguar cars, and the former bl marques daimler and lanchester, from the ford motor company. the austin marque has been retired and the mini marque is owned by bmw. ==history==   following the financial collapse of the british leyland motor corporation (blmc) in 1975 and the stark ryder report on the ailing firm, the resulting government bail-out and nationalisation saw the company being renamed to british leyland (bl).alan pilkington, transforming rover, renewal against the odds, 1981â94, (1996), bristol academic press, bristol, pp.199, isbn 0-9513762-3-3 however, the huge industrial relations problems, ineffectual management and product duplication that had plagued the company up to the nationalisation continued throughout the late 1970s. the problems centred on longbridge union leader and shop steward derek robinson (nicknamed "red robbo" by the british press). robinson had assumed a greater level of control over bl than any of its senior managers, and his network of union leaders in the various bl plants had the power to end production if he had instructed them to do so. the [[labour party (uk)#labour in power
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