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Dieselman 63
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The Germans use Forgemasters quite a bit for heavy castings, says something! Best in the world 
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Daily Mail, nasty sods, they well & truly stitched up a friend of my wife's when her husband committed suicide. They invented all sorts of lovers & scandal under the heading "a friend tells us" or "local rumours are" Never have a copy in the house since, nor ever likely to. The trouble is Joe Public thinks they are telling the truth, but it's anything to get a story.
I agree scum of the Earth along with the Guardian who are the biggest hypocrites.
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The FT is the best for *actual news* without 'who's been spotted wearing this' and all those crap 'opinion' articles.
Yes it probably is - Telegraph not to bad either. Still the FT is owned by murdoch - scum of the Earth!
Theres a difference to making and building something.
Bottom line as long as its supports British jobs and economy well done.
Just a shame a high proportion of Triumph is made in Thailand with three manufacturing plants plus die moulding and paint etc.
From what i can gather UK is head quarters and where the profits end up, better us than them. They do have an assembly area for certain models, R&D/Prototyping, produce the cam and crankshafts for all engines, thats it.
Think its safe to say what few companies we have left we are at the top of the game.
I do see stuff made all over the world, Germany built its reputation on robustness and quality now living on a foregone conclusion with the punches they pull.
Bottom line as long as its supports British jobs and economy well done.
Just a shame a high proportion of Triumph is made in Thailand with three manufacturing plants plus die moulding and paint etc.
From what i can gather UK is head quarters and where the profits end up, better us than them. They do have an assembly area for certain models, R&D/Prototyping, produce the cam and crankshafts for all engines, thats it.
Think its safe to say what few companies we have left we are at the top of the game.
I do see stuff made all over the world, Germany built its reputation on robustness and quality now living on a foregone conclusion with the punches they pull.
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I heard Triumph build the engines in the uk and the rest is done in Thailand. Pity they cannot do the lot in the uk though.
You can’t moan about triumph being abroad when we have all sorts of car makers over here investing,knocking out some top motors,putting our 1970’s reputation of bangers into perspective,I mean cars for everyday folks to afford,not the prestige stuff we’ve always been renowned for.
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True, but triumph is all that is left of a once huge industry, the british motorcycle. I know there are a few others, but none near the same scale.
In fairness the high value jobs are in R+D not actually putting things together. Triumph actually employ more people here now than they did when they moved production abroad.
And you only have to look at the likes of Apple and Intel to see where the real money is. They don't really make anything in the USA it is all overseas.
A lot of people don't realise that 70% of the CPUs and GPS chips in phones are actually British! Not made here but it earns the country a few billion a year.
It was the Germans who bought the original triumph engineering co when the first collapsed in the 10’s or 20’s.
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No, it was Siegfried Bettman and Maurice schulte, two German emigrants who started triumph in the 1890's, they sold it off in the 1920's, to Jack Sangster i think it was, who owned a lot of motorcycle brands, Ariel, bsa etc.
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oh, wrong way round then
Go and sit in the corner until you have learned your lesson, nah its alright.
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Doesn't the Nissan factory in Sunderland produce more cars than the whole Italian car industry? I'm sure I've heard that somewhere before...
Don’t know that much but heard on news it’s one of their most efficient factories.
