'Exports' is the magic word which, so we are told, will cure our economic ills.
Christopher Brasher interviews the Chairman and Chief Executive of Britain's largest exporter

Last year's merger between British Motor Corporation and Leyland Motors produced a giant group, British Leyland Motors, which exports over £250-million worth of vehicles a year and holds over forty per cent of the home market in cars. They produce double-decker buses and the ubiquitous Mini; the lush Daimler and the sporty Jaguar. One man sits at the top of this group, controlling the merger, fitting together two competing companies into one group large enough to meet the competition of the giant American and Continental combines-the job which one newspaper described as 'The toughest job held by any boss in Britain.'