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Hi shipmates, we still make car engines in Wales The car industry is dead allmost gone are the days, where we exported them in great numbers .What is needed is new types of industry, to bring us up to date. and make us world leaders again. Without many new jobs the U.K. will be very soon a backwater with serious social probelms Hi rob page My dad had a morgan 3 wheeler in 1950-1955 sold it at a profit.
hello Louis once took a cargo of jaguar sports cars to los a and san fran agreat female actress at the time came down to see one and the tele people were there she was called kim novak a real looker and me standing to attention in more ways than one about 1956 ...happy days
Brian it makes no difference to me if the company is foreign owned as long as the product is made here and gives jobs to British workers.The argument for staying in Europe is that if we pull out these foreign companies will go to Europe as being in a country that is in Europe attracts subsidies.I would say that the fact that we pay £56 million a day into Europe if we were'nt in it we could afford to pay these foreign companies incentives to manufacture here.I think employment law in parts of Europe is far harder for the employer than in this country.
Regards.
Jim.B.
In the old days never missed a home or away game: The Blue Birds: Cardiff City.
Home games was by train to the City and the Grange End,
Away games, were a meet up at the Transport Café by Ninian Park, big brekkie and a load of us in the back of a transit to as far afield as Pompey, Brighton and all.
James "Jimmy" Scoular (11 January 1925 – 19 March 1998) was a Scottish football player and manager. Known as a tough, combative player with precise passing skills, Scoular made over 600 appearances in The Football League with Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Bradford Park Avenue, as a player-manager, and attained nine caps for Scotland in a playing career spanning nearly twenty years, Following his retirement from playing, Scoular went on to manage Cardiff City and Newport County.
Jimmy was our manager and we had John Benjamin Toshack OBE (born 22 March 1949) a Welsh former footballer and manager.
As a player, he is remembered for being part of the Liverpool side of the 1970s, where he formed a forward partnership with Kevin Keegan.
Those were not only the day's but the last time I travelled all over in the back of a transit, most likely totally illegal now,
K.
[QUOTE=Jim . What happened to the slogan Buy British.
Regards.
Jim.B.[/QUOTE]
Jim just a question without notice, Waht is British, do such things still exist?
Hi shipmates,Hi keith my barry buddy, I only saw the city play a few times, I knew john Toshack , he was at seven road school in canton, he use to train every day in his Cardiff days The company I worked for had a transit van, a green one by the name of bettsy never put a foot wrong a great motor, but with a few faults ,so was sold and replace by a Hi Ace van with a proper heater, nice finish all round, bomb proof and very cheap on fuel. Some transit were very good but not all!!!
John mate, Britan does still produce, but no longer in the every day stuff, it is all in the high tech industries. I beleive most Formula one cars are developed here in the UK, I think we are also well established in the Europian space agencey and aircraft industries. Sad thing is we have to share it all with others as we no longer have the monies to finance it ourselves. we keep paying other nations to sponge off us. As for Ford Brian is right we should all stop buying there cars and vans, but we wont.Quote:
Originally Posted by happy daze john in oz
George
in Southampton
We should black any company that shuts down in Britain and then manufactures overseas then imports back in Britain making a bigger profit.
Dyson is one, closed down here, manufactures in the Filipines and re imports.
Cadburys chocolates All closed down here makes it in Poland and reimports here,
Terrys of York chocolates now made in Poland.
Fords now in Turkey,
The list is endless,
I never buy from any company that does this. The whole Nation should do it.
The Government should ban imports from any British Company that manufactures overseas then imports.
It is the only way to get jobs back into Britain, hit them in the wallet.
Brian.
But there in lies the problem. Many products may say 'fully owned British/Australian; company then read thew small print,'made in China'
But your problem there is most likely close to ours, wages are too high, workers want all manner of extras, there were at one time over 40 coutries producing cars, now there are only 17 and falling.Within five years all cars sold here in Oz will be imported.
John you have it in one wages. The Western world as we know it has been paying itself far to much. Up goes the cost of living, we need more money to cope with it, so up go wages, so then up goes goods and raw materials again. This merrygo round has been steadly happening since the end of WW11. When my father left the Navy, he worked as a long distance lorry driver earning £10 a week, to-day his grandson is doing the same job for wages in exese of £300 a week. So now our bosses are relocating to third world countries where wages overheads etc are way below ours but still selling at Western World prices. I think that in the not to distant future China will economicly rule the world including Gemany, America and Japan.
George
in Southampton