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  • ERICS_MUM
    ERICS_MUM Posts: 3,579 Forumite
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    baileysbattlebus wrote: »
    Sorry you'll have to knock Mars Bar off your list - they are and always have been American.

    I worked for Mars for many years and they are owned by the Mars family - Forest Mars Sr was sent to the UK in the early thirties and he set up in Slough and produced the Mars Bar. It was his sons, daughter and one of his grandsons that I knew and met many times.

    Oh never mind, they still taste good !

    Linda :T
  • mystic_trev
    mystic_trev Posts: 5,434 Forumite
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    Kohoutek wrote: »
    burberry_cap_2.jpg

    From the people who gave you Chlamydia ;)
  • baileysbattlebus
    baileysbattlebus Posts: 1,443 Forumite
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    ERICS_MUM wrote: »
    Oh never mind, they still taste good !

    Linda :T

    I know........ we used to gets lots of stuff free - the kids' friends used to think it was Christmas every time they came to our house.
  • pwllbwdr
    pwllbwdr Posts: 443 Forumite
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    HP sauce is now made overseas. The most popular cider on the market now is made in Ireland.:eek:
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    pwllbwdr wrote: »
    HP sauce is now made overseas.


    And?????

    We still recieve the net income flows and they are higher than they would have been had they used a UK workforce with all its demands for maternity and sick pay, health & safety and oooman rights.

    It's utterly natural UK manaufactuirng is done abroad, and until MSE types stop shopping around, that will never change (no doubt you are pleased with a bargain which will often have been possible because of cheap labour).
  • pwllbwdr
    pwllbwdr Posts: 443 Forumite
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    In Holland? And net income flows to the UK from Heinz?
  • dgl1001
    dgl1001 Posts: 183 Forumite
    I can't believe no one has posted this but..........we design and make the best (German) F1 engines

    http://www.mercedes-benz-hpe.com/hpe/index.htm

    In fact, Mercedes F1 team is english, along with over half of the other F1 teams.....
  • Mr.Brown_4
    Mr.Brown_4 Posts: 1,109 Forumite
    Conrad wrote: »
    It's utterly natural UK manufacturing is done abroad
    What does it mean? Is it spin?
  • aelitaman
    aelitaman Posts: 522 Forumite
    dgl1001 wrote: »
    I can't believe no one has posted this but..........we design and make the best (German) F1 engines

    http://www.mercedes-benz-hpe.com/hpe/index.htm

    In fact, Mercedes F1 team is english, along with over half of the other F1 teams.....

    When Ross Brawn took over at Ferrari he would only join if an R&D facility was started in England because we are the best. Also somewhere I read that all USA Indy cars are designed and made in UK.

    Then thier is the Tesla that USA electric powered supercar. Is it made in Yankville, no siree, it is made in Norfolk.
  • JasX
    JasX Posts: 3,996 Forumite
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    I believe we still have the turbine/jet engine arm of


    Gordon+Brown+Visits+Rolls+Royce+Learning+Development+-7aDg1ShaWBl.jpg
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