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How come everything I want to buy is from China! I tried to buy an outside table for the Motor Home , did loads of research and sent emails asking the question, where is it manufactured but in the end I had to buy Chinese.
Now I need a set of snowchains, hopefully will never had to put them on but I have to carry them for the Police in France. Low and behold the only ones I can buy at a sensible price is from China. When I look on Ebay it says from Litchfield or Uttoxeter which is just down the road from us but scroll down and the business seller is based in China.
I was looking at the zip tie ones (orange) which seem if you have to use them very easy to put on. Do we not make anything in this country anymore?
PJ
 
Remember when stuff was expensive? You’d save up to buy something, and because that something was expensive, you would maintain and fix it. And that something was probably made in the UK.
Every time I visit the tip I’m amazed at what folk throw away. I remember as a kid working my socks off to get the money together to buy a secondhand push bike. If I wanted a bike now, just take your pick at the tip!
We want and like cheap stuff, that means it has to be made with a cheap workforce.

When I moved house earlier in the year, I left my huge sofas behind as they wouldn’t fit into my down sized bungalow. Spent a couple of days looking at new sofas, all looked like crap and were expensive. Found two sofas and an armchair on gumtree and did a deal at £150 delivered. Happy bunny, I’d reckoned on having to spend at least £2k....
Would you buy second hand furniture?
 
izwozral said:
Try finding shoes not made in China! Even some of the better known makes are now being made in China.
We stayed in a hotel recently, it had the obligatory bible - printed in China!
China has taken over the world by stealth and is now your master.
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I buy mine Here expensive but last 10 years plus
 
I bought a pair of Clarke shoes 13 years ago, the clod hopper type, round toed, soles half inch thick, sturdy as hell. Paid £8 in the sales, they were cheap because they were dark blue. Got some black leather dye, sorted.
Still wear them even though they are not looking their best. And they were UK made!
 
Motorola are Japanese so will be buying theirs next. Designer pumps are for pussy's, hob nailed boots are deriguer oop norf.
EDIT Motorola are now made in India! 😕
 
izwozral said:
Motorola are Japanese so will be buying theirs next. Designer pumps are for pussy's, hob nailed boots are deriguer oop norf.
EDIT Motorola are now made in India! 😕
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Sorry young Ral, they are assembled there but still built in China. I know this as a fact....................honest
 
oppy said:
Sorry young Ral, they are assembled there but still built in China. I know this as a fact....................honest
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So is much of what most of us buy ....

So many reasons (primarily cost )that stuff isn't made in the UK these days ....

We do make some very niche stuff regardless of cost (most of the F1 car chassis are rooted in the UK ...or at least we're recently )
We make some pretty specialised kit for space etc too ...
BUT by and large it's cheaper to make mass produced stuff abroad
 
As this is a forum for people with Motorhomes and Campervans, if anyone wants B2B chargers, Battery Maintainers and MPPT controllers, you can get ones that are Designed AND Built in the UK at Merlyn Electronics in Salford, Manchester.


(Yes, the raw components will likely be made in Chinese chip factories, but if that is the source, that is the source)
 
Linn Sondek turntables are UK made, and so are neam amps and many other top notch real Hifi.
I do love my linn and treat it as a baby.
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