Wednesday, 30 September 2009

Depressing Manufacturing...

We truly used to kick the shit out of manufacturing and then, among other things, Atlee came along... bollocks. Consider the railway industry if you will.

Active companies
  • Alan Keef Ltd (narrow-gauge diesel/steam locomotives, permanent way)
  • Clayton Equipment Company Ltd (diesel/electric/battery locomotives)
  • Brush Barclay
  • Brush Traction (diesel/electric locomotives)
  • Exmoor Steam Railway (narrow-gauge steam locomotives)
  • Hunslet Engine Company (diesel locomotives/narrow-gauge steam locomotives)
  • Cowans Sheldon (railway cranes)
  • TMA Engineering Ltd (narrow-gauge diesel locomotives)
  • 5at project, steam for the 21st century
  • Steam Loco Design
Defunct companies
  • Andrew Barclay
  • Armstrong Whitworth
  • Aveling and Porter
  • Avonside Engine Company
  • Bagnall
  • Baguley
  • Beyer Peacock
  • Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  • Black, Hawthorn & Co
  • BREL
  • British Electric Vehicles
  • British Thomson-Houston
  • Cravens (multiple units/coaching stock)
  • De Winton
  • Drewry Car Co.
  • Dübs
  • George England
  • English Electric
  • Fletcher, Jennings & Co.
  • Fox Walker
  • Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (multiple units/coaching stock)
  • Greenwood & Batley Ltd (Greenbat)
  • Hawthorn Leslie
  • F. C. Hibberd & Co Ltd
  • Hudswell Clarke
  • Kerr Stuart
  • Kitson
  • Stephen Lewin
  • Manning Wardle
  • Metro-Cammell (multiple units/coaching stock)
  • Metropolitan Vickers
  • Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company
  • Motor Rail
  • Muir-Hill
  • Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company
  • Neilson Reid
  • North British Locomotive Company
  • Peckett and Sons
  • Pressed Steel (multiple units/coaching stock)
  • R and W Hawthorn to 1870
  • Ruston & Hornsby
  • Sentinel Waggon Works
  • Robert Stephensons and Hawthorns
  • Robert Stephenson and Company
  • Sharp, Roberts and Company
  • Sharp Stewart and Company
  • Thomas Hill (Rotherham) Ltd
  • Tulk and Ley
  • Walker Brothers - narrow gauge for Ireland
  • Vulcan Foundry
  • Wingrove & Rogers
  • Yorkshire Engine Company
In 1950 70% of British economy originated in manufacturing today that figure stands at 12%. Boys and girls we need to start making things again.

(If you are wondering, the entire list was copied from Wikipedia).

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