following on from

[w p e]

feeling the pinch. the VINE says torque of the devil rolling road tuners have closed there doors today for the last time . more jobs lost fooking country poxy goverment needs shooting

[banarama]

oh poor old chris todd [NEEDS BLOWING UP]

[w p e]

? pm maybe

[turnover]

yes deffo closed,never used him so cant comment but have spoke to him a few times at pod and seems a nice chap

[Dazzler 666]

Total bummer!!! Dont know the guy but is truly aweful to hear bout more job losses .... especially bout people/things close to heart!!

Also, i dont support a particular patricular party but dont blame the Con/Liv Government as I think they trying to do the right thing, though is going to be hard with no easy answer!!!!

Look what Labour left ..........................

Anyway, long live OSF's..............

[marky4]

not good

i've used them and they did an excellent job

[SmokeEm]

Gutted

[Old Mex]

Shame to hear that... Ive used him before, good helpfull fella !

[GJUK]

Interesting, obviously shows there is 'less' spare income flying around. Sorting your weekend 'toy' can't be that high on many peoples lists any more.

[deltamal]

From a manufacturing point of view, I recently quoted to make a large batch of machined aluminium parts for a local company did not get the job, found out afterwards that the parts could be bought and shipped from China for the same price that I can buy the material for, if I paid my guys £2 a week I could compete, the only bright spot is that recently Chinese workers have been going on strike for better pay and conditions, will take 5 or 10 years for them to catch up though......

[D-FENS]

feeling the pinch. the VINE says torqe of the devil rolling road tuners have closed there doors today for the last time . more jobs lost fooking country poxy goverment needs shooting

These the people based in uxbridge ? .

[harris horse power]

thats terrible news cant believe it , they was the best tuners ive used so far! they was ment to be mapping my escort now who am i gna use

[banarama]

feeling the pinch. the VINE says torqe of the devil rolling road tuners have closed there doors today for the last time . more jobs lost fooking country poxy goverment needs shooting

These the people based in uxbridge ? .

yes uxbridge,chris used to work at power engenierring .before torque of the devil

[D-FENS]

Think power plus engineering are opposite torque of the devil .Power plus engineering are part of hillingdon speed and spares i think,they are in sutton court road hillingdon.

[mk1super]

Thats utter cr@p yet again the domino effect in action, whens it gonna end????

[Retromotorsport]

From a manufacturing point of view, I recently quoted to make a large batch of machined aluminium parts for a local company did not get the job, found out afterwards that the parts could be bought and shipped from China for the same price that I can buy the material for, if I paid my guys £2 a week I could compete, the only bright spot is that recently Chinese workers have been going on strike for better pay and conditions, will take 5 or 10 years for them to catch up though......

 

I cant remember if i read/heard it right, but there was a call to raise the import duty on parts, based on distance traveled, ie get green, which i belive was a disguise for penalizing cheap imported parts from China, complete end user items wouldn't be effected, so we the consumers would pay the same for those items, but companies over here, buying in machined parts would find local products more attractive, and the knock on of you ( UK Manufacturers) getting fuller order books at a price making it worthwhile.

 

There was an arguement against it saying a small business wouldnt be able stand the price increase caused by bringing Imports in line with Home produced.. which was countered by the arguement that if you get a UK firm to make 100 items its say £5/unit, but make a 1000 its £2.50/unit.

 

I think this should be pushed through, and surported by people like the SBF

 

A lot of the 'do-gooders' in this country bang on about 'fairtrade' etc and yet they blocked this. And that by increasing costs to the forigien Importers would cause them to pay the workers less to bring the price down.... well sorry but thats in another country, lets look after our home market before we look at others.

[deltamal]

The import duty would help, but on the downside most of our raw materials are now imported, steel especially because most our world supplying steel mills have been shut down I use about 60 tons of mild steel sheet and 20 ton of stainless per month, so would have big affect on me, it's fortunate that customers still want the quick turnaround and easy access to sort out any problems.

[Retromotorsport]

The import duty would help, but on the downside most of our raw materials are now imported, steel especially because most our world supplying steel mills have been shut down I use about 60 tons of mild steel sheet and 20 ton of stainless per month, so would have big affect on me, it's fortunate that customers still want the quick turnaround and easy access to sort out any problems.

 

Is the steel coming from china... if so then yes, the price would go up, but if its sourced closer to home, ie mainland Europe then it would be the same as it is now..

[deltamal]

The import duty would help, but on the downside most of our raw materials are now imported, steel especially because most our world supplying steel mills have been shut down I use about 60 tons of mild steel sheet and 20 ton of stainless per month, so would have big affect on me, it's fortunate that customers still want the quick turnaround and easy access to sort out any problems.

 

Is the steel coming from china... if so then yes, the price would go up, but if its sourced closer to home, ie mainland Europe then it would be the same as it is now..

 

A lot of the mild steel is,the stainless from Poland and district.....