Dannimac

Following the last post, a bit more work reveals that the Dannimac factory closed in 1996, a Teesside factory then employing around 250 people and owned by a company called William Baird - a company of which I had never before heard.

I quote from the snip left: '29th October 1996: factory to close with loss of 255 jobs: a rainwear factory in Middlesbrough is set to close with the loss of 255 jobs according to union officials. The GMB union says staff at the Dannimac factory were told of the closure yesterday. Cheaper production costs in factories abroad especially in the Philippines are being blamed. The GMB says the closure part of a programme of 500 jobs cuts will be implemented over 18 months'. Which makes the coat of my coup more than 20 years old - while appearing to be brand new. It had presumably been sitting in the cupboard of some house bound senior citizen all that time.

I associate to a conversation in a train, back in the 1980's, with a textile machinery engineer who told me that he spent most of his time in the Far East selling them our finest textile machinery, perhaps at that time the finest in the world. Good business for now, he said, but when we have finished, our industry will be finished too.

I am reasonably confident that this factory closure is real news, that careful checking would reveal it to be true news. But it is now time to put this hare down and I shall try to restrain myself from checking further!

Reference 1: http://www.whathappened.website/OCT2996-008.htm.

Reference 2: http://www.bmb-group.co.uk/.

Reference 3: http://psmv3.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-coup.html.