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[mrclark303]

It's quite incredible the things China can turn it's enoumous manufacturing base to....

If they ever went to war, they would be able to harness this enormous capability far better than anyone else.....

Remember when we used to make things?? And it's back around to MG!

I used to own a 1800cc K series MK1 Freelander, affectionately known as Smoking Billy by my friends...

She was a great example of what's happened to British manufacturing..

Built by Land Rover, designed by BMW and built under Ford ownership using many Rover parts, ie the crap stuff!

All the Rover supplied parts failed, utter Shi*te, poorly designed and manufactured components.

From the K Series engine, to the sunroof, poor quality engineering, badly effected by accounting led constraints.

The only poor piece designed by Landover was the clever, but flawed Viscous Coupling.

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[Gil Boyd]

My one an only trip John was to Guangzhou near Shenzhen their really big industrial copying base afew years ago.
I was taken around a museum behind glass where only company visitors could go and see what was there, and everything from the west of enormous interest, like the wheelbarrow, bomb suits and anything that needed a bit of thought behind its construction was there, side by side. Our version right next to their copy to show presumably comparison. This was open and in my face.
Whilst there, I saw a workshop with 3 massive CNC machines with AUCTION written right across each one in white chalk, which had come from the UK Midlands somewhere from a closing down auction, working and making something with a gaggle of men around them. So in short they will "reproduce" anything to a bad level.
Ironically, I have found myself at two farm auctions just recently after the harvest when the older combine harvesters were being auctioned off. I have never see so many Indian lads fighting nearly for these old style machines.
I asked one why they were bidding so furiously against each other, and they said it was becuase they could mend the "non computer" old machines in India but not the new computerised ones.
Goes to show, we have taught them well in the mend and save area of life!!!