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#1 Spider

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Posted 06 October 2016 - 07:50 PM

Well, bit of a Black Arm Band day today.

 

Ford Australia, after around 100 years of local manufacture, the last locally produced Ford is rolling off the line this morning.

 

The two remaining manufacturers, Holden (GM Owned) and Toyota are closing next year.

 

I feel for the workers, and their families. I also feel for all the component manufacturers as well.

 

Huge loss, not just to those above, but to the country and in so many ways that our bone head government fails to see.

 

 



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Posted 06 October 2016 - 08:21 PM

I thought Holden had already closed their doors?

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Posted 06 October 2016 - 08:48 PM

That is so short sighted by the government. Everyone knows a sound economy needs manufacturing, no one benefits from that sort of policy.

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Posted 06 October 2016 - 10:13 PM

Well, bit of a Black Arm Band day today.
 
Ford Australia, after around 100 years of local manufacture, the last locally produced Ford is rolling off the line this morning.
 
The two remaining manufacturers, Holden (GM Owned) and Toyota are closing next year.
 
I feel for the workers, and their families. I also feel for all the component manufacturers as well.
 
Huge loss, not just to those above, but to the country and in so many ways that our bone head government fails to see.


Terrible news Moke Spider, I really don't know what the hell is going on with the world just lately, so perhaps this topic is true after all 'Petition For Closer Ties With Australia Canada And New Zealand'

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Posted 06 October 2016 - 10:29 PM

Ah yes it was 2013 that they all announced they were stopping production. Holden and Toyota next year.

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Posted 07 October 2016 - 04:50 AM

 

Well, bit of a Black Arm Band day today.
 
Ford Australia, after around 100 years of local manufacture, the last locally produced Ford is rolling off the line this morning.
 
The two remaining manufacturers, Holden (GM Owned) and Toyota are closing next year.
 
I feel for the workers, and their families. I also feel for all the component manufacturers as well.
 
Huge loss, not just to those above, but to the country and in so many ways that our bone head government fails to see.


Terrible news Moke Spider, I really don't know what the hell is going on with the world just lately, so perhaps this topic is true after all 'Petition For Closer Ties With Australia Canada And New Zealand'

 

 

Yeah, it's just so dumb and stupid. IMO, even if they were a loss maker and needed propping up with Tax payer's money - which in fact they have been receiving - it is to the benefit of the country as a whole. A HUGE loss of skills which we simply won't ever get back.

 

The Auto sector is the last major manufacturing we have left.

 

I have a theory, that the Chinese set out to make this happen, not just here, but globally. Everything is made in China these days and all the major companies are there in one form or another. They have done this, so that manufacturing anything anywhere is is simply unviable, this then leads to the closing of most manufacturing in just about every other country.

 

Once all the major manufacturing has gone, they only need start a war and it wouldn't take much nor long for them to win out as no other country will be able to make planes, ships nor tanks, not in any quantity. We only have to look to WWII to see who was making this hardware back then - the auto sector handled more than most, as they were the only ones who had that sort of manufacturing capacity. We wouldn't even be able to make bullets!

 

In this way, little is damaged and they only have to walk in,,,,,,,

 

Only a theory!


Edited by Moke Spider, 07 October 2016 - 07:15 AM.


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Posted 07 October 2016 - 07:31 AM

Surprised to hear Australia is going down this route, it also reminds me of the sell off of British Steel plants to Tata of India a few years back who then recently announced plans to close our few remaining steel plants with the loss of all UK jobs, industrial skills and meaning almost all our steel would have to be be imported........so few people or politicians seem to understand anything about manufacturing now and are only interested in short term financial figures, while convienently forgetting we live in an increasingly dangerous world.

As you say in the event of any future war we will lack the materials, factories and manufacturing skills if suddenly some of our current trading partners are no longer willing or able to supply us with their imported steel, gas, electricity, etc.............not to mention our proposed Chinese designed and built Nuclear Power stations!


Edited by mab01uk, 07 October 2016 - 07:34 AM.


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Posted 07 October 2016 - 03:38 PM


 





I have a theory, that the Chinese set out to make this happen, not just here, but globally. Everything is made in China these days and all the major companies are there in one form or another. They have done this, so that manufacturing anything anywhere is is simply unviable, this then leads to the closing of most manufacturing in just about every other country.

 

Once all the major manufacturing has gone, they only need start a war and it wouldn't take much nor long for them to win out as no other country will be able to make planes, ships nor tanks, not in any quantity. We only have to look to WWII to see who was making this hardware back then - the auto sector handled more than most, as they were the only ones who had that sort of manufacturing capacity. We wouldn't even be able to make bullets!

 

In this way, little is damaged and they only have to walk in,,,,,,,

 

Only a theory!

 

 

A very fair theory, but we may have already got past that stage.

 

What about the idea that the 2008 banking crash was a necessary evil and on balance a good thing for the world?

 

Because although, of course, the greedy banks overdid it and exploded when they were left unregulated, leaving them unregulated allowed increased spending in the mature Western markets, who spent a lot of their easy money buying unnecessary Chinese-made tat.

 

Thus The National Peoples Congress improved the living standards of the Chinese people without using The Peoples Liberation Army.

 

The alternative version of the last twenty years would have been even more expensive and much nastier!  

 

Jon

 

[ .... doesn't mean I'm ever pleased about any loss of manufacturing ]



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Posted 07 October 2016 - 03:59 PM

No more utes?!  Noooooooooo!



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Posted 07 October 2016 - 06:45 PM

http://www.roadandtr...-building-cars/

 

The same kind of thing is happening in the US. All the "Big Three" small car manufacturing is moving to Mexico since they are not selling well. The only temporary saving grace is that fuel is cheap (now) and people want big trucks and SUV's. The profit margin on those is a lot higher and they continue to be built in the US. How long will that last? Until the next money crisis....


Edited by xrocketengineer, 07 October 2016 - 06:53 PM.


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Posted 07 October 2016 - 07:19 PM

We supply globally to Ford at work, & have noticed that sales have changed to places like Mexico, Brazil, India & China.
Cheaper labour rates in these sort of countries mean that other plants lose the business.

In UK, Dagenham has downsized a lot since & Bridgend's future is iffy at the moment.

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Posted 19 October 2016 - 04:14 PM

And apparently the next crisis might already be here.....

 

http://www.motortren...d-other-models/



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Posted 22 October 2016 - 04:50 AM

And apparently the next crisis might already be here.....

 

http://www.motortren...d-other-models/

 

I just think it's all part of the trend in the Western World that there's a decline in all manufacturing and not just cars and not just 'the next' crisis but all the same one.

 

I mentioned something in this thread about how this is all part of a Chinese conspiracy.



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Posted 22 October 2016 - 06:47 PM

SALL +VINIGRA  wid dat???






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