End of an Era
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End of an Era
Another chunk of British heavy engineering gone. These are the last two Christmas Trees leaving our factory in Leeds. Destined for the Mediterranean offshore Tripoli.
600 manufacturing jobs gone (USA, Malaysia and Brazil still going). 300 design & project jobs still there.
- Stanley
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Re: End of an Era
Bill, what a shame..... Was it beancounters 'rationalising'?
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Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Re: End of an Era
'Christmas Trees' - or 'subsea trees' to give them the correct name, used in offshore oil and gas fields and they cost a bit more than the ones you buy in Aldi!BillHowcroft wrote: ↑20 Sep 2017, 19:24 Another chunk of British heavy engineering gone. These are the last two Christmas Trees leaving our factory in Leeds. Destined for the Mediterranean offshore Tripoli.
more pictures of subsea trees
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- Stanley
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Re: End of an Era
'Rationalising' isn't always simply a matter of economics.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
Stanley's View
scg1936 at talktalk.net
"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Re: End of an Era
No, but id Phillip Hammond wants to know reasons for low productivity, take a look here. I doubt physical output per worker hour is much different in the 4 worldwide locations.