ABSTRACT
In this book I have attempted to analyse how government policies affected the UK motor industry between 1945 and 1979.1 have shown that government policy did have a considerable influence on the UK motor industry. Sad to conclude, much of that influence was unintended and undesirable. From the introduction of export quotas in 1946 to the end of the Social Contract in 1979 a series of policies, many unfavourable as regards the motor industry, have been traced. And whilst, as regards the country's overall objectives, some of these policies had favourable outcomes, all too often the benefits were transitory or, even worse, negligible, when compared to the short-term and long-run costs imposed.
