British Manufacturing

[Mick F]

Pepper and spices were always a problem.
So were grannies in churchyards.

Any road up, how did these Raleigh bicycles of 100 or more years ago lubricate their bearings?
Tallow, beeswax or lard?

[cycleruk]

Pepper and spices were always a problem.
So were grannies in churchyards.

Any road up, how did these Raleigh bicycles of 100 or more years ago lubricate their bearings?
Tallow, beeswax or lard?

No answer here but:-
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=raleigh+bicycl ... 5061020047

Did you know:-
http://www.ask.com/bar?q=raleigh+bicycl ... 5061020047

[Mick F]

I have had my machine for 4 1/2 years and it shows no sign of deterioration. Beyond ordinary wear and tear incidental to all, it has needed no repair. Not only does the machine outwardly look well, but it runs as silently as ever. I have cycled all my life, but a sounder, safer, or swifter cycle I could not desire.

Sounds like a Certain Machine I have in the shed!

[glueman]

I was told some time back, that to be Cornish, "you had to have a granny in the churchyard!"

I offered to go back to Lancashire and dig one up ..............

Having lived here over ten years I asked someone recently when you're accepted as local. They said 'when you die'.

[Flinders]

Did they grow cows for leather saddles?

I heard a rumour that LOT, the Polish Airline, was so vertically integrated, as it's called, that they farmed pigs for their in-flight porky sandwiches!

Wasn't the old GWR (Great Western Railway) into vertical integration (before anyone had a fancy name for it!)?

[DavidT]

Sorry to resurrect this thread from 2010 (Time flies! ), but...

I bought a new lawnmower yesterday. A BOSCH. Delighted, and surprised to see "Made in UK" on it.

[al_yrpal]

Bosch have quite a few manufacturing plants in the UK. Hydraulics - Bosch Rexroth are our biggest supplier of Hydraulics and Worcester Bosch boilers. Bosch is a trust company and reinvest all their profits that's why they are so successful. In contrast many large British companies are run by accountants who tend to bleed them dry. Accountants can only tell you what happened and unlike engineers have no vision. They and myopic bankers are at the root of our ills. As an engineer I think its hilarious how the latest crop of Whitehall wizzards have belatedly realised how we can prosper with modern manufacturing which often involves making stuff abroad whilst retaining high quality engineering and marketing jobs here just like James Dyson does. Unfortunately he is still misunderstood and largely ignored.

Al