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Evans Electric

Evans Electric

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I was looking at a local history forum and started to see names of companies that have disapeared from Birmingham . There are many more but these employed thousands of workers, so given massive immigration , increasing population, thousands of school leavers every year ........ where the hell do they work . I'm sure other areas are much the same . I list these few to make the point .

GEC (Generators / transformers)

Wilmot Breedon

Metro-Cammell ( Trains)

Tubes Ltd

Dunlop Tyres

Rover Cars

BSA

Hercules Cycles

Sun Cycles

Dawes Cycles

Vellocette Motor cycles

Birds Custard

Lucas Automotive Electrics

Typhoo Tea

HP Sauce

Chad Valley Toys

S.U Carburettors

Amal Carberettors

Ansells Brewery

M&B Brewery ( Bass Charrington)

Bill Switchgear

Ellison Switchgear

Swan Brand

Most of the Gun Quarter

Cinncinatti M/c Tools

Stewart & Lloyds Steel works

They can't all become sparks ....can they ????

 
i don't know how the country functions tbh.

all the money is exported

where once, me and you for eg were the bread winners and the wives/people who are less career minded did unskilled jobs to make luxuries perhaps/stop them getting bored at home then spending that money on other British things.

our work is scarce because there's so little manufacturing and the unskilled jobs taken by foreigners who live 20 in a house and send all that spare money abroad to there families

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You forgot to mention the unmentionable. :yawn :Blushing;)

 
Trouble is its not just big cities my local town had a furniture manfacturing company Whiteleaf furniture employed a lot of people we also had molins cigerette machine manufacturer they employed a few thousand at there peak both have gone and other factories also. New hollands were in a town local to me and High wycombe was all furniture manufacturing at one time. Trouble with this country governments will not support manufacturing were as other countries do support there industries. They are all to highly taxed so they either close or take there manufacturing abroad. I am no expert but I think no country can survive unless it produces something to sell.

 
I was looking at a local history forum and started to see names of companies that have disapeared from Birmingham . There are many more but these employed thousands of workers, so given massive immigration , increasing population, thousands of school leavers every year ........ where the hell do they work . I'm sure other areas are much the same . I list these few to make the point . GEC (Generators / transformers)

Wilmot Breedon

Metro-Cammell ( Trains)

Tubes Ltd

Dunlop Tyres

Rover Cars

BSA

Hercules Cycles

Sun Cycles

Dawes Cycles

Vellocette Motor cycles

Birds Custard

Lucas Automotive Electrics

Typhoo Tea

HP Sauce

Chad Valley Toys

S.U Carburettors

Amal Carberettors

Ansells Brewery

M&B Brewery ( Bass Charrington)

Bill Switchgear

Ellison Switchgear

Swan Brand

Most of the Gun Quarter

Cinncinatti M/c Tools

Stewart & Lloyds Steel works

They can't all become sparks ....can they ????
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Now there's a blast from the past, Willmot Breedon. They became part of the Rockwell Corporation way back in the '80s. I dealt with them for many years, especially in the early 90s when I was Project Engineer in charge of mechanical vehicle security for P38A (to become New Range Rover at launch in '94). Rockwell developed the C-Type latch, RLRs first 'superlocking' latch, which went into production on 38A and eventually found its way into R800s, MG TFs and later R25s. The product pretty much died on its feet though when BMW bought RLR and all new projects had to use their latch (from Bomoro, later part of Brose). I later went back to Fordhouse Lane to test returned faulty C-Types, but the site closed about 5 years ago and it all went to France.

Rockwell took me to Farnborough Air Show in 92, where I met a pair of pilots of an Apache (armed by Rockwell Corp) which was on show. They showed us some real video footage of themselves in real combat. AWESOME.

 
Whats that then?
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I'm sorry , Init, but its The Big Unmentionable ,so I dare not mention it , the Forum comes down upon you like a ton of bricks .

Only Ex- BDC is licensed to say the dreaded word . Now there is a clue in his name ,see ... erm... there was an electrical wholesaler that went out business and it was called .... er...well... the initials at the start of this sentence gives you the name .

A thread started , discussing the demise of said company and its management etc and it went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ad infinitum....ad nauseum , and now the very mention of it stirs Forumites into a fury .

After many nasty words and violent posts the only survivor of The Unmentionable Thread was the etheral Ex- *** who now graces us with his presence.

NOW DON'T MENTION IT AGAIN ;)

 
No Andy you've got IT all wrong ... its not "IT" that causes problems ...its ..IT ..you know .... IT, not the word "IT" ... the other thing ... the Unmentionable thing ,, you know ... like Voldemort ...we don't utter the name ..we must'nt dabble with the Dark Forces .. you know this .

 

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