Is there anything that's NOT made in China?

[Night Train]

Morgan sports cars are made in the Malvern Hills.

We do need more manufacturing in Britain. We are more then able to compete in the highest quality of engineering but we don't for many reasons. We should do and we should specialise in the level of expertise that is harder to replicate in global mass manufacture.

About 14 years ago I had the option of being an importer of Chinese made engineering and workshop machines. I looked a the quality and decided I couldn't sell that level of poor quality and still have any integrity. I could have been quite well off doing it but I wouldn't like myself.

 

[Globalti]

One point I'm always making to anybody who will listen is that we don't have any impressive industries left for young people to enter. How many boys wanted to be an engine driver? Okay, few became engine drivers but at least there was a job that had style and machismo and social status, that kids aspired to. When everybody worked at the local factory, people walked to work, they saw how the clever and hard-working colleagues progressed in the factory, became managers, became richer, moved to a better house up the hill and this gave them aspirations. We had the railways, the mills, steel, shipbuilding, mining, heavy manufacturing, all kinds of jobs that offered impressive rewards in the finished product. Wht do we have now for kids to do when they leave school? Call centres and Mcjobs selling coffee. Buying cheap from abroad takes some of the blame for this.

I, for one, hope the whole cheap Chinese goods culture falls flat on its face. The rest of the world will then be able to get back to earning a living from honest hard work.

 

[Globalti]

One point I'm always making to anybody who will listen is that we don't have any impressive industries left for young people to enter. How many boys wanted to be an engine driver? Okay, few became engine drivers but at least there was a job that had style and machismo and social status, that kids aspired to. When everybody worked at the local factory, people walked to work, they saw how the clever and hard-working colleagues progressed in the factory, became managers, became richer, moved to a better house up the hill and this gave them aspirations. We had the railways, the mills, steel, shipbuilding, mining, heavy manufacturing, all kinds of jobs that offered impressive rewards in the finished product. Wht do we have now for kids to do when they leave school? Call centres and Mcjobs selling coffee. Buying cheap from abroad takes some of the blame for this.

I, for one, hope the whole cheap Chinese goods culture falls flat on its face. The rest of the world will then be able to get back to earning a living from honest hard work.

 

[bauldbairn]

a) We do need more manufacturing in Britain. We are more then able to compete in the highest quality of engineering but we don't for many reasons. We should do and we should specialise in the level of expertise that is harder to replicate in global mass manufacture.

About 14 years ago I had the option of being an importer of Chinese made engineering and workshop machines. I looked a the quality and decided I couldn't sell that level of poor quality and still have any integrity. I could have been quite well off doing it but I wouldn't like myself.

a) What I can't understand is why Britain - who started the industrial revolution - no longer views engineering / manufacturing favourably. Whilst Japan, Germany, America(to a lesser extent recently) and others still invest massively in it and it's technological advancement. I can't help feeling angry that our bankers would invest in sub-prime mortgages for Billy Bob and Peggy Sue and not our industry at home.

B) I admire your stance on not importing the cheap Chinese engineering equipment. It doesn't compare to the more advanced Japanese, German, American and to a lesser extent Italian machines.
I repaired parts of these machines / robots for years in a previous career - and found Siemens, Fanuc, Parvex, Mitsubishi, Indramat(Bosche), Franz Kessler - to name but a few - Servos and controls a pleasure to work on. -

 

[bauldbairn]

a) We do need more manufacturing in Britain. We are more then able to compete in the highest quality of engineering but we don't for many reasons. We should do and we should specialise in the level of expertise that is harder to replicate in global mass manufacture.

About 14 years ago I had the option of being an importer of Chinese made engineering and workshop machines. I looked a the quality and decided I couldn't sell that level of poor quality and still have any integrity. I could have been quite well off doing it but I wouldn't like myself.

a) What I can't understand is why Britain - who started the industrial revolution - no longer views engineering / manufacturing favourably. Whilst Japan, Germany, America(to a lesser extent recently) and others still invest massively in it and it's technological advancement. I can't help feeling angry that our bankers would invest in sub-prime mortgages for Billy Bob and Peggy Sue and not our industry at home.

B) I admire your stance on not importing the cheap Chinese engineering equipment. It doesn't compare to the more advanced Japanese, German, American and to a lesser extent Italian machines.
I repaired parts of these machines / robots for years in a previous career - and found Siemens, Fanuc, Parvex, Mitsubishi, Indramat(Bosche), Franz Kessler - to name but a few - Servos and controls a pleasure to work on. -

 

[karen.488walker]

Chopped chicken curry, egg fried rice and a pancake roll. They make mine in Heis, Sevenoaks.

 

[karen.488walker]

Chopped chicken curry, egg fried rice and a pancake roll. They make mine in Heis, Sevenoaks.

 

[Paulus]

British Real Ale, especially Fullers, Smith and Turners.

 

[Paulus]

British Real Ale, especially Fullers, Smith and Turners.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

British Real Ale, especially Fullers, Smith and Turners.

mmmm 1845

 

[threebikesmcginty]

British Real Ale, especially Fullers, Smith and Turners.

mmmm 1845

 

[Paulus]

mmmm 1845

ESB is my tipple of choice from the Griffin Brewery.

 

[Paulus]

mmmm 1845

ESB is my tipple of choice from the Griffin Brewery.

 

[telesonic99]

Can I just say that Yiang Lee Boilers are the best boilers money can buy. That's Yiang Lee.

 

[telesonic99]

Can I just say that Yiang Lee Boilers are the best boilers money can buy. That's Yiang Lee.