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<blockquote data-quote="vibrac" data-source="post: 167378" data-attributes="member: 60"><p>I worked and was an apprentice in a British Engineering factory It did not make motorcycles it made electrical switchgear 11KV stuff the sort hidden behind fences in housing estates.</p><p>Goods in received raw material nuts and bolts and ceramic insulators. everything else was made in house it had a machine shop a toolroom a foundry, a plating shop, an assembly shop, a paint shop, a plastic moulding shop, a welding shop and a electrical wiring shop it was bought by a succession of companies in the seventies and asset stripped.</p><p>I doubt that an apprentice nowadays would ever get a chance to understand engineering up close like that.</p><p>Any so called factories nowadays are just a single task written large inserted between acres of Amazon and other warehouses of import distribution.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vibrac, post: 167378, member: 60"] I worked and was an apprentice in a British Engineering factory It did not make motorcycles it made electrical switchgear 11KV stuff the sort hidden behind fences in housing estates. Goods in received raw material nuts and bolts and ceramic insulators. everything else was made in house it had a machine shop a toolroom a foundry, a plating shop, an assembly shop, a paint shop, a plastic moulding shop, a welding shop and a electrical wiring shop it was bought by a succession of companies in the seventies and asset stripped. I doubt that an apprentice nowadays would ever get a chance to understand engineering up close like that. Any so called factories nowadays are just a single task written large inserted between acres of Amazon and other warehouses of import distribution. [/QUOTE]
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