Sad news - no Blackburn Mullards any more..

[aquapiranha]

Very sad.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...dministration/

[freefallrob]

It is sad, yet more manufacturing in the UK lost.....

[Marco]

What's going to happen to TechTube then, I wonder?

Marco.

[Barry]

Whilst saddened at the loss of yet another world class UK manufacturer folding, I'm not really surprised and to be honest, have been expecting it since I read about the start up at the beginning of the year.

I wonder how much NOS E813CC s will go for on eBay?

I shall now cherish the few Mullard valves in my collection.

Sadly yours

[Spectral Morn]

What's going to happen to TechTube then, I wonder?

Marco.

If someones got any sense they will buy that part of the company and the machines and the talented guys behind it.

Sorry I haven't had a chance to hear any. You will no doubt find out at the audio show.

Sad yes another British company gone, but also a vital company in audio history.


Regards D S D L

[DSJR]

Jack Straw will "give his support" to the company - yeah, right.........

I get mad when I see some genuinely innovative products being discontinued because of our shortsightedness. I bet that the few remaining TV tube manufacturers will look at what these guys were doing and do similar things themselves - probably worse....

I feel for the staff...

[REM]

Jack Straw will "give his support" to the company - yeah, right.........


I feel for the staff...

Of course we all feel for the staff, that site has been shedding jobs for the last 30 years, everyone in Blackburn has either been directly or indirectly affected and there will be worse to come as more of the 'hi-tech' spin off industries up sticks and move to the far east.
As for Jack Straw, words fail me. He had a column in last nights' LET in which he attempted to explain the current economic crisis, in the most patronising,
over simplistic and demeaning way imaginable likening the global balls up to a businessman attempting to refinance his company by remortgaging his house and the role/responsibility of the banks in all this.
FFS, just how stupid does he think we all are? Being lectured, or talked down to more like, from the likes of Straw/Brown/Darling/Hamilton and the rest who have never done a days work in their privileged and incompetent little lives makes me want to puke. To add insult to injury there wasn't one word in the article about the Micro/TubeTech closure, bloody typical and I can't find on the Lancs Telegraph website either so he obviously realises what a total twunt he's made himself look and had it pulled.
Dropped 'her ladyship' at work this morning and drove past the site at 7am, not a sole in sight or even a light on inside, all very ominous I fear.

[anthonyTD]

Of course we all feel for the staff, that site has been shedding jobs for the last 30 years, everyone in Blackburn has either been directly or indirectly affected and there will be worse to come as more of the 'hi-tech' spin off industries up sticks and move to the far east.
As for Jack Straw, words fail me. He had a column in last nights' LET in which he attempted to explain the current economic crisis, in the most patronising,
over simplistic and demeaning way imaginable likening the global balls up to a businessman attempting to refinance his company by remortgaging his house and the role/responsibility of the banks in all this.
FFS, just how stupid does he think we all are? Being lectured, or talked down to more like, from the likes of Straw/Brown/Darling/Hamilton and the rest who have never done a days work in their privileged and incompetent little lives makes me want to puke. To add insult to injury there wasn't one word in the article about the Micro/TubeTech closure, bloody typical and I can't find on the Lancs Telegraph website either so he obviously realises what a total twunt he's made himself look and had it pulled.
Dropped 'her ladyship' at work this morning and drove past the site at 7am, not a sole in sight or even a light on inside, all very ominous I fear.

hi ralph,
i am just sick and tired of seeing and learning of more engineering sites being closed in this country, pretty soon we wont have a hope in hell's chance of supporting our selves if there were a real crisis worldwide because we are losing all the skills and the skilled people that once made this country great and therefore able to fend for itself.
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[DaveK]

Hi Guys,
Living near Sheffield for most of my life I've witnessed the demise of manufacturing industry and been made redundant twice because of it, so I am all too sadly aware of what is happening in Blackburn. What worries me is what will happen to our country when the ones making the money (in the middle and far east) work out how to do for themselves what the city of London does for them now. It might just reverse the immigration trends but that's another subject - will they make us as welcome as we, as a country, have made their citizens? - I rather doubt it.
The only spark of light on the horizon that I can see is, hopefully, the same will tend to happen as has happened to the brewing industry - small companies are gobbled up and disappear (in this industry manly to mainland Europe) and small artisan breweries arise to meet the needs of the people who appreciate the real thing. Hopefully some of these will flourish and grow and the cycle will resume - always assuming of course that we are left with enough money to spend on ale. Perhaps even the same thing could be said to be happening to the hi-fi industry, hence the trend to making our own kit, some of which then turns into a profitable hobby and then a mini business
We Brits are a resiliant bunch and I'm sure that we won't let it go totally down the tubes but, IMHO, any lead in that direction will start from the bottom upwards rather than the reverse. By and large our 'leaders', IMHO, are a set of self interested tossers who believe the public is there to serve them rather than the reverse - roll on the revolution!!
Rant over.
Victor, aka Disgruntled of Sheffield. .

[DSJR]

All this "Education, Education, Education" bull is going to affect things too. As standards "rise," so will the required qualifications needed to get there will too.

I'm gradually clawing my way into the education system as a humble TA/Cover Assistant. I was told the other day that a BSc won't be enough to get into teaching before too long. teaching applicants will have to have an MA instead. Indeed, our local High School's 6th form head is studying for his MA "just-in-case," as well as furthering his own ambitions and education. On the other hand, to be fair, support staff are actively encouraged to further their training and education as a means of progressing their career and ambitions.

Back in 1973, you needed A levels - two B's and a C - to enter medicine. I understand it's at least three grade "A's" AT LEAST now...... I hope these extremely clever students have grade "A" life skills too!!!!!!!!!