[Tomvart]

Same happened up in my hometown when Siemens bought the old Parsons Turbine plant in Heaton, production moved overseas when times got tough.
BAE systems (who inherited the old English Electric Plant from BAC/British Aerospace at Warton) seem to be going the same way with an over reliance on the MOD obsessively purchasing aircraft from US suppliers, much to the detriment of what little is left of the U.K. Military aviation industry, and of course, self destructive 'so called' Joint projects such as the JSF, essentially relegating BAE (UK) to metal bashing roles, whilst all of the lucrative system integration tasks (and in service support work) go to the US too.