Manufacturing in UK

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(1) Graham Ruddick, Manufacturing Week: We Have the Technology. Telegraph, Aug 27, 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/engineering/8727267/Manufacturing-week-We-have-the-technology.html
("BAE Systems is Europe's largest defence contractor and Britain's biggest manufacturing employer with 40,000 staff")

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read THIS report. Just take a look at the graphics.
(b) In case you do read:
(i) Spinning Jenny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_jenny
(section 5 Origin and myth)
(ii) I am unaware of the basis that prompts the British to claim invention of telephone.
(iii) Isambard Kingdom Brunel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
(1806-1859)


(2) Roland Gribben, How We Got Here. Telegraph, Aug 27, 2011.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/8727009/Manufacturing-week-How-we-got-here.html

Quote:

"For more than 100 years Britain was the world’s leading industrial nation * * * By the middle of the 19th century Britain accounted for the bulk of the international markets in coal, steel, textiles and ships and in the 1870s had cornered 40pc of world trade in manufactured goods.

"Britain’s historical strengths in the old industries, cotton, coal, steel and ships, and weakness in the fast-growing electrical industry proved a handicap after World War 2 as Germany produced an 'economic miracle’ and we were saddled with the sobriquet of the 'sick man of Europe’

Note:
(a) Henry Bessemer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bessemer
(1813-1898; The Bessemer process involved using oxygen in air blown through molten pig iron to burn off the impurities and thus create steel)
(b) Davy lamp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_lamp
(c) Samuel Crompton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crompton
(1753-1821; section 2 Spinning mule)
(d) Tyneside
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyneside
(a conurbation; It includes the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside — all settlements on the banks of the River Tyne)
(e) "Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers-Armstrongs
(f) Joseph Rowntree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rowntree_(philanthropist)
(g) Lever Brothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lever_Brothers
(h) Sir Titus Salt  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Titus_Salt
(i) GKN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GKN
(section 1.1)
(j) For ICI, see Imperial Chemical Industries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Chemical_Industries
(founded in  1926 by way of the merger of four companies; 2007 takeover by Akzo Nobel, a Dutch conglomerate)
(k) For GEC, see General Electric Company plc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_Company_plc
(Not to be confused with the American company General Electric (GE); renamed Marconi Corporation plc in 1999 after its defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems was amalgamated with British Aerospace to form BAE Systems)
(l) The "motor" in "motor industry"
(n): "MOTOR VEHICLE; especially : AUTOMOBILE"
www.m-w.com


(3) Trevor Williams, The Economist's View: Over the past 30 years, since 1980, manufacturing output has grown in real terms by only 14pc in total, an average gain of less than ½pc a year. Telegraph, Aug 27, 2011 .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/8727011/Manufacturing-Week-The-economists-view.html

My comment: This commentary is mediocre. Read it quickly, if you want to read it at all, to get a general idea of current status of UK manufacturing.



  

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