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manuka
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Posted: 10:03am 26 Apr 2007

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Just announced today - F&P are closing their washer (?) factory in Auckland NZ & moving everything to Thailand. Their famous motors may hence change design ? See => www.stuff.co.nz/4039266a10.html

Stan. in NZ

Stan I hope you dont mind but I moved this to the windmill section, its big news and I thought it should have its own thread. Glenn.Edited by Gizmo 2007-04-27

dwyer
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Posted: 01:23pm 26 Apr 2007

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Hi Manuka
Well the same things happen to Australia What a shame seeing many manufacture is going overseas reason is high cost plus stupid little johnny's GTS and work reform and now Australia is going become backward state

Dwyer the Bushman

Gizmo

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Posted: 09:34pm 26 Apr 2007

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Australia once had its own electronics industry, we made our own radios and TV sets until the late 1960's.

Feel sorry for the guys in the NZ F&P factory.

Will be interresting to see how this affects F&P motor availability, if at all. I dont expect the design would be changed.

Glenn

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brucedownunder2
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Posted: 09:55pm 26 Apr 2007

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Yes bad , seems lots of things are going "offshore" --I partly blame it on intelligence , look back when I was leaving school, you went to Telecom,became an apprentice, worked in a store or office ,,,or if you were real smart went to university.

Now days every kid wants to go to university or become an "IT" whizz kid---no one wants to work in factories, become telecom techs or trades guys(unless their dad's have a trade business )

I go past the exchange where I worked at 40 years ago ,,maybe 30 of us in there,,nowdays it's steel meshed up ,nobody works in there.

anyhow,,I'm so glad for my past skills, my 2 boys(adults) hardly know how to start a motor mower,even if they owned one !!!--they get someone to do that stuff . thank god for the RACQ, there be abandoned cars all over the place.

Bruce

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