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Many spares come from China as well as other low cost countries and this extends to the likes of wiring looms.
Blame the EU as they say that the COO (Country Of Origin) is displayed as the "last country in which a major process takes place", define a "major process". Putting the door on could be it.
Pumps are more expensive than that depending on what you buy, from whom and with what spec. Generally though there shouldn't really be any over about £12-20 unless it's produced in Germany like Hanning and a few others.
Nothing has been produced in the UK for a while, slung together here under the EU rule above however, yes.
It's a huge myth that Hotpoint or Hoover are British, Hoover has NEVER been British owned or a British company and Hotpoint hasn't been British for longer than I've been alive.
People are easy duped though into thinking that they're being patriotic.
K.
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. Its what you know for sure that just ain't so." Mark Twain
