British Tractors

[yellow belly]

TBH the amount of British jobs being supported by UK assembled Tractors will be negligible compared to the service and support thereafter. There are probably more British Jobs looking after JD equipment than anything else due to the volume of them out there.

that may be the case

but if it is assembled in the uk there are service staff and assembly staff

your argument could be used to suport overseas grown food packed cooked and sold in the uk

 

[Wellytrack]

that may be the case

but if it is assembled in the uk there are service staff and assembly staff

your argument could be used to suport overseas grown food packed cooked and sold in the uk

Boris would agree with that sentiment entirely. Unfortunately that is exactly what is happening. I’d like to see as many jobs as possible returning to, or retaining in manufacturing as the next man but I don’t see the point in jingoism for the sake of it. Global brands have global sites, 6000 are employed at a Japanese car plant in the NE. 3000 jobs have been lost at another in Swindon. Who knows what a stroke of the pen can do to peoples fortunes..

 

[Wellytrack]

As an aside, I spoke with a Landini dealers staff who visited the smaller range of tractors made and was impressed at how much of the tractor they actually made.

 

[Lincsman]

I've had the pleasure of being given a tour round the factory

And yes, the shorter wheelbase blue and even a few of the red ones are assembled there.

However since they stopped producing the powerstar engine, and shut the foundry, not even the cleaners sandwiches are actually made there.

Everything is carted through the tunnel or across the water to this wee Island, where it's screwed together on a line that dates back to the days of the ford 5000s.

Lovely bit of history to see, but the profits all go overseas now

Not much of the assembly profit of a Deere or Fendt comes to this country, and non of the PAYE

 

[Bongodog]

Deutz have recently opened their (huge) new factory in Germany where the (old) bubble cab six series and larger models are built.

Engines are still the most frugal of things, gearboxes are the latest ZF joy to operate designs, front suspension has been totally redesigned to provide comfort that only those clever Finnish buggers at valtra better, cab is still the small greenhouse designed back in the 1990s.

Apart from the cab, Deutz really are tremendous bits of engineering, totally let down by the awful distributor backup given to dealers who don't have experience of fixing problems because they sell so few of them.

My advice to the OP is buy what you find that is most comfortable and pleasant to operate. There's no point trying to buy British, because there's bugger all actually made here anymore.

Time after time I see this statement "bugger all made here anymore" We have to understand that parts manufacture is a global business. As an example I drive vehicles assembled in Belgium and Turkey with Dagenham built engines.

 

[oil barron]

I know it was a tongue in cheek comment, but Basildon has its own cafeteria with their own chefs, quite good food too, so at least the sandwiches and chips were made there from start to finish



The 'HD' range line was very recently closed and moved to Austria (T7.275, 290 and 315), the last of the Basildon built HD's and Optums will be coming out now.

You're right though, not just taking into account the factory staff but the office staff, security, support for local businesses is absolutely huge financially for a business of that size.

That’s disappointing. They were all hand built by the best techs in Basildon as they were too big to go down the line.