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A sad state of affairs across the board with the collapse of these major companies. My hometown of Stafford was basically an 'English Electric' town (previously Siemens, there is even a pre-war housing estate there still called 'Siemen's Colony.')
When I left school in the early sixties the 'Ingo' as it was known employed 10,000 people in the town. I myself worked for a while in the newly built MRI (Meters Relays and Instruments) factory. Giant transformers on huge Scammell wagons were often seen leaving the factory bound for all parts of the world.
Then it became GEC and then Alstom and has gradually downsized to a mere stump of what it was. Most of the factory space is long gone, now replaced by the likes of B & Q and Pizza Hut and so on.
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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.)
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