Scammel Motor plant | Plant closure | British Industry | Factory closure | TN-87-033-016 

CONSIDER THIS Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant. Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant. Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds. Peugeot closed its Ryton (ex Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant. British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales. Dyson has gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (ex METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, they once employed 1,200. M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan. Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants. Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant. Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant. Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant. Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding. Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing. ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase. JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry. UK airports are owned by a Spanish company. Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company. Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies. The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online. Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada. 39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU. The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK. The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are most likely going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently. ================================================================================== Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, Work was contracted out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations. ================================================================================== I haven't even detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there. I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany. ================================================================================== Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. If you think the EU is a good idea, 1) You haven't read the party manifesto of The European Peoples' Party. 2) You haven't had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your business down. 3) You don't think it matters. WE NEED TO BE FULLY OUT OF EUROPE … not in or partly in.

such a shame, but it's so pleasing to see Scammells being restored or used in some cases for work, I went with my dad to pick his Highwayman up and a couple of crusaders back in the day great days.

Very sad indeed what a loss.

So glad we are out of the the E U. The French and the Germans haven't forgotten and forgiven how we beat them in past wars and battles. People laugh at that but it's true, you can't erase history. Churchill. Monty. Wellington. Nelson. Thank the Lord we had men like them around at the right time. 👍🇬🇧

Scammell produced great lorries which sold al over the world. Along with Leyland, Foden, ERF and Seddon/Atkinson, the British lorry industry contributed strongly to our economy, creating tens of thousands of jobs, generating wealth and skills in the communities in which the factories were based, helping our balance of payments and serving their owners well for many many years, decades in the case of owners such as Harrisons in Sheffield. Now we have only Leyland left, and that is foreign owned. Foden, ERF and Seddon were sold off to foreign concerns and closed down after their order books had been grabbed, and nearly every lorry on British roads is imported. The military stopped buying British lorries 15 years ago and taxpayers' money now supports jobs and wealth in Germany and Austria. It is all thanks to Thatcher and her ideology, eagerly supported by Blair, which dictated that it is wrong to support our own industries.

A sad time.