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Jul 30th, 2018, 15:21 | #181 |
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Scrappage scandal.
[QUOTE=AllHailKingVolvo;2431215I wonder how many old Volvos are sitting in the holding pen full of scrappage scheme cars in Folkestone or wherever it is...?[/QUOTE]
It is a scandal, but not in Folkestone, they're on a site in the Home Counties. Apparently many have been stripped for spares. Jon. Last edited by Prufrock; Jul 30th, 2018 at 17:42. Reason: typo |
Jul 30th, 2018, 18:11 | #182 |
Ye olde Volvii galore!
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Indeed...a great shame. I had a sniff around on google, lots of interesting pics online taken by urban explorer types, no Volvos in evidence but lots of other great cars gathering dust and moss.
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Tony B. Liar aka Tony Blair has a lot to answer for!
First he announces in 1998 we would become a "service industry" country destroying the manufacturing industry in a matter of a few words and then he scraps all our classics! Granted not all of them but a large proportion of them. Now as has been pointed out by many and brought to our attention again by Jon, we can see it in his link earlier that now seems to have disappeared?
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I agree successive governments before his tenure of Number 10 hadn't helped, when Maggie started buying coal from Russia because it was cheaper than mining our own (especially with Scargill and all his strikes) she paved the way for a change of attitude about quality and cost. This is again reflected in the Scrappage Scheme - that and the national obsession with having the latest reg letter on the number plate........
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A person who was minded to consider conspiracy theories could easily formulate a theory that various Prime Ministers since WW II had slowly but surely sold the country out to the Europeans. I was recently on Google Streetview taking a trip down Memory Lane and looked at where i did my apprenticeship, then one of the foremost semiconductor houses in Europe with a healthy R&D dept (the CD system as we know it now was developed there) and now there is nothing left of the company i worked for. Something i found ironic is where the Building Section was (where prototypes, test-beds, bespoke items and similar were made) is now a Builders Merchants but that aside, it shows the lack of investment in this country and the loss of manufacturing.
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Jul 31st, 2018, 10:08 | #189 |
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You can see my Volvo buys British signature ? This was a sticker found in the bookpack of many a Volvo in the late 70s through to the mid 1980s.
Imagine if it were true today, and how that relationship might be in jeopardy ? Volvo made their purchases from British manufacturing companies back then because they were buying the best (I'm paraphrasing Volvo here) - the majority of those British companies no longer exist. I'm old enough to remember the Buy British campaigns, I might have been a schoolboy but I remember, I remember (paraphrasing Orwell now). Discuss. Jon. Last edited by Prufrock; Jul 31st, 2018 at 10:17. Reason: deleted Orwell quote - not at all relevant. |
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At least Volvo had the sense to Buy British and it shows with how many 70s, 80s and 90s Volvos still around.
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