[Rich in Vancouver]

When they closed down the BMC competition department at the Canadian importer in Ontario They had men smashing Comps engine blocks and heads with sledgehammers and they were lifting straight cut Cooper S gearboxes up on a forklift and dropping them onto concrete to smash them.
I also heard stories of people who rescued truckloads of MGA Twin-Cam engines gearboxes, and brand new Dunlop wheels when they discontinued them. 20 years ago there were rumours of a shed somewhere in the eastern states that was full of BMC crated Twin-Cam bits being hoarded by a Twin-Cam owner.