COMMENT: Saab heading for museum status?

Author: Simon Warburton | 30 November 2011

I spent yesterday (29 November) at the Tata Steel Supplier Day in the surrounds of the magnificent Heritage Motor Centre museum and conference centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire and, even then, the precarious situation at Saab was ever-present.

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