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Old Dec 11th 2012, 7:45 am
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Pity the UK destroyed the manufacturing industries that they were world leaders in - aviation, shipbuilding, rail, heavy and precision engineering, nuclear.
You forgot about hovercraft....
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 7:50 am
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Originally Posted by renth
You forgot about hovercraft....
True, now it's America....
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 8:01 am
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Manufacturing in all Western nations has been decimated by cheaper, mostly Asian, economies. Some would have us believe it is a UK issue.
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 9:28 am
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True, now it's America....
Now it's America what?
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 9:46 am
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Now it's America what?
Maybe America are the world leaders in hovercraft manufacturing ?
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 10:58 am
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Originally Posted by papilon
Now it's America what?
http://www.textronmarineandland.com/products/lcac.php

That would have Saunders Roe in the '60s

Your nation invented it FFS
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 10:59 am
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Maybe America are the world leaders in hovercraft manufacturing ?
The modern pom - sneering at his nation's past and the future that could have been
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 11:10 am
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Originally Posted by chris955
Manufacturing in all Western nations has been decimated by cheaper, mostly Asian, economies. Some would have us believe it is a UK issue.
Bollocks. Most British real manufacturing was finished long before Asia was a challenger

Do some research before spouting shite
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 8:49 pm
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Bollocks. Most British real manufacturing was finished long before Asia was a challenger

Do some research before spouting shite
Yes thatchers government saw to that most effectively.
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Old Dec 11th 2012, 11:26 pm
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Yes thatchers government saw to that most effectively.

Most of it was finished way before her.
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Old Dec 12th 2012, 4:41 am
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Originally Posted by isgraham
Yes thatchers government saw to that most effectively.
nope it was the unions that shagged the country over

and as an after thought may i ask how old you are?

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