UK manufacturing- what happened ?

[Mike K]

This is a interesting site . Where are all of the UK manufacturing companies today ?

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Main_Page

[Private_collector]

In China, I fear, with all our steel.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Mike

Thanks for sharing this site it will take some exploring, I'm afraid Tony is correct. It would be interesting or discouraging to see similar sites for the US, Canada, etc. Make a heck of Doctoral Thesis for some economic student to take a site like this and actually track where all these products are now made.

Cheers Phil

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Mike

Thanks for sharing this site it will take some exploring, I'm afraid Tony is correct. It would be interesting or discouraging to see similar sites for the US, Canada, etc. Make a heck of Doctoral Thesis for some economic student to take a site like this and actually track where all these products are now made.

Cheers Phil

Unfortunately, the icon of American ingenuity and industry, Jeep is considering building all it's Jeeps in China!

http://washingtonexaminer.com/jeep-a...rticle/2511703

I eagerly anticipate Obama's mental gymnastics as he blames this on Romney...or Bush.

CHIMO! Derek

[Ed Storey]

Sadly this is the economic trend, Western wages are high and no-one wants to pay $100.00 for a shirt or a pair of sneakers so China is the place to get things made. The west sells them natural resuroces at cheap prices, they manufacture things cheaply and we buy them. I doubt any politician can change that trend.

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by Ed Storey

Sadly this is the economic trend, Western wages are high and no-one wants to pay $100.00 for a shirt or a pair of sneakers so China is the place to get things made. The west sells them natural resuroces at cheap prices, they manufacture things cheaply and we buy them. I doubt any politician can change that trend.

True. Except Obama hypocritically berated Mitt Romney for supposedly shipping jobs overseas during one of the debates in a cheap and calculated ploy to gain votes. Of course, he neglected to mention how many of the auto manufacturers he "single-handedly" rescued from bankruptcy have facilities outside of the U.S., or how his buddy Geoffrey Immelt of G.E. recently closed a factory which re-opened in China, or how Fisker took hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayers dollars for a "Green" grant then promptly shipped the factory to Scandinavia. Wouldn't want to confuse the Oba-zombies with a few inconvenient facts now would we? Stepping off my soap-box now.

CHIMO! Derek.