Confessions from quality control - The Frontera factory
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The Crack Fox said:
Well, Mr Hidetheelephants, I was inspired by your suggestion and am just back from a few days in sunny Spain in this;
What are the odds.... I was just reading about that here : http://www.motorpunk.co.uk/articles/toyota-ch-r-ja...
Great book by the way!
The Crack Fox said:
Chapter 40 done. Starts off nicely enough with trespassing somewhere in Italy with a knackered out Fiat 500, then a lap of Targa Florio, then it moves swiftly to some public school type dying from drinking cat's blood, before ending with a night on the floor at Gatwick airport.
Not sure how to follow that...
Excellent. Do you have a release date in mind? Before the end of 2017?Not sure how to follow that...
Got it for Christmas, really enjoyable read and after 33 years in automotive world it was easy to recognise some of the attitudes and incidents. Any clues as to the identity of the tractor factory? Did you know the guy stood next to Noel Edmonds is now the CEO and Chairman of Rolls Royce?
Abbott said:
Got it for Christmas, really enjoyable read and after 33 years in automotive world it was easy to recognise some of the attitudes and incidents. Any clues as to the identity of the tractor factory? Did you know the guy stood next to Noel Edmonds is now the CEO and Chairman of Rolls Royce?
Me too, very enjoyable well done! The Crack Fox said:
Abbott said:
Got it for Christmas, really enjoyable read and after 33 years in automotive world it was easy to recognise some of the attitudes and incidents. Any clues as to the identity of the tractor factory? Did you know the guy stood next to Noel Edmonds is now the CEO and Chairman of Rolls Royce?
Thank you! I would really rather not identify that particular factory due to the death involved. It's a million to one chance but I would hate for his widow to ever know the actual circumstances of his death.At the beginning of my working life I experienced a tractor factory being built in Poland. The story of an efficiently laid out machine shop with everything neatly laid out except for the roof not yet fitted was a hoot.
Had it for Christmas, really enjoyable read...just too short! books normallt take me a few weeks, I read your in 2 evenings, couldn't put it down.
I've been in the automotive, business in the midlands since I left school at 16(25 years), and those stories are all very familiar hahaha.
I can recall and will mention as good old Rover don't exist, I interviewed a chap who was an ex shop Steward from there, the strike part in the book about the canteen soup was so true, he admitted they went of strike over mince pie filling, safe to say he didn't get the job and my boss and I struggled to hold it together in the interview, he was dead serious over it as well which made it even funnier.
unfortunately some companies that have historic routes back to when they were 100% British still have a few die hard lead swinger characters and I work with a few now
Looking forward to the next one :-)
I've been in the automotive, business in the midlands since I left school at 16(25 years), and those stories are all very familiar hahaha.
I can recall and will mention as good old Rover don't exist, I interviewed a chap who was an ex shop Steward from there, the strike part in the book about the canteen soup was so true, he admitted they went of strike over mince pie filling, safe to say he didn't get the job and my boss and I struggled to hold it together in the interview, he was dead serious over it as well which made it even funnier.
unfortunately some companies that have historic routes back to when they were 100% British still have a few die hard lead swinger characters and I work with a few now
Looking forward to the next one :-)
The Crack Fox said:
I see you're a Honda fan. There's a chapter comparing the Rover 600 to the Honda Accord. Same car (just about) but the factories were poles apart despite a lot of engineering collaboration. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it.
I can believe that - I've worked in the industry a bit, including some time at Solihull as staff and as a supplier...if Longbridge was cut from the same cloth as Solihull, then I'm not at all surprised it collapsed*...* Phoenix 4 malfeasance notwithstanding.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
stevethegreek said:
... very funny in parts...
Ouch!TCF's book is a combination of revealing and funny - a nice balance of curiosity and comedy makes for a great read, and there's very little of his book that misses the target in that way.
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