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My hometown Stafford used to be the home of English Electric, with an enormous factory that employed close to 10,000. They made just about the entire range of heavy electric equipment.
It got took over by GE and then Alstom, gradually being whittled away. They recently closed the turbine generator section saying the work would go to Rugby. There's very little left now, and nobody is sure what the future of it is.
When I left school for a while I worked in the brand new state of the art English Electric MRI (meters, relays and intruments) factory. Last August I was up in my hometown to see it being demolished.
Somebody somewhere needs a rotating cactus up their orifices for the way they've allowed big foreign companies to take over and then wind down our industry.
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"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Corporal Hicks
(Actually Ripley said it first.)
Last edited by BobClay; 17th June 2019 at 18:01.
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