« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2013, 08:21:22 am »
I bet the investment is worked out to maximize efficiency though.
All the British manufacturers failed to make the committed investment needed to pull this trick off. Under financed and unable to keep up, they fell by the wayside. The skill sets are still here for technical excellence but we seem unable to turn that into volume production without foreign management. So is it the fault of the 'bolshi' British worker or the ineffective management class that we fail?
It was so much simpler when we were the only people making stuff and Johnny Foreigner had to do what he was told or talk to a gun boat. (Case in point - Pirates in the Straits of Hormuz threatening our gas supplies. Back in the day the Royal Navy would be put in and the Rum ration served out with few questions asked afterwards over who's toes got trodden on). Funnily enough a large busy army is excellent training for good managers. It would seem second class Polytech --- sorry Universities --- are not. Yet the German nation manages the trick well enough without gunboats now, so we are doing something wrong.
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