Came across this and thought I’d post:
Dyson designers to reach for inspiration with historic RAF jet
DYSON wants to park a second iconic aircraft outside its Malmesbury headquarters.
The firm has applied for planning permission to install an English Electric Lightning F1 in a vertical position with LED lights highlighting the engines.
It also wants retrospective permission for the Harrier jump jet already standing outside the main entrance to the building.
According to the application lodged with Wiltshire Council, the aim is to “inspire positive creative spirit amongst staff and visitors on the site, whilst also promoting or reinforcing local distinctiveness.”
The historic plane, XM173, flew between 1960 and 1973. It was part of the RAF Firebirds display team and served at bases around the country including Coltishall, Leuchars and Wattisham before becoming a gate guard at RAF Bentley Priory.
By: Cking - 19th January 2013 at 22:55
Proving Cking, that they’re into business not charity.
So that makes it ok then?
Too many average British people have been put out of work because of that.
Rgds Cking
Oh by the way
.” Two years ago the company was refused planning permission to expand the plant in Wiltshire.”
Was there no other premises in the whole of the British isles available?
By: AlanR - 19th January 2013 at 11:16
Lovely idea, as long as they keep it in nice condition.
By: Flanker_man - 19th January 2013 at 10:37
IIRC, one of the reasons Dyson moved production to Malaysia was because he could not aquire land for expansion in Malmesbury.
The local council were less than helpful as I recall…….
From the BBC website…..
Two years ago the company was refused planning permission to expand the plant in Wiltshire.
One worker blamed planning chiefs for the jobs losses.
Dyson has invested £32m in the Malmesbury site in the last two years.
So it isn’t all one-sided
Ken
By: AN2grahame - 19th January 2013 at 10:02
Surely they need an old B17 engine as Dyson claims “Cyclone technology”
By: Ken Shabby - 19th January 2013 at 09:57
David,
You’re a businessman and want to make maximum profit. Do you
A) employ someone who demands the highest of wages?
B) employ a person who will do an equal job for half the money?No brainer?
YOU decide who A and B are…
But you’re not selling those- premium – products to people in group b…
You’re selling them to people in group a.
And the wages of people in group b are not rising (there’s always someone cheaper and more desperate)…the wages of those in group a are falling.
Not too much demand for 500 dollar vacuum cleaners in Malaysia.
Therein lies the problem. The race to the bottom in wages destroying your customer base.
Which is exactly what we’re seeing now in the UK and is exactly a result of globalisation and the export of our volume manufacturing.
No good being a ‘businessman’ if there’s virtually no customer for your product.
So ‘no brainer’ – not really. Just short-term thinking rather than thinking of what’s best in the long run for our country, and a sign of how we have to dance to the tune of something called ‘the markets’ (in actuality a few sociopaths in font of computer screens).
By: TempestV - 19th January 2013 at 09:52
Surely something Goblin powered would be more fitting for a vacuum company! 😀
By: David Burke - 19th January 2013 at 02:02
Yeah they do the job for half wages for a few years then people realise that their expectations can rise and their wage demands increase as well. It’s human
nature. Have a look at the unemployment levels in China and its interesting to note that Vietnam is now the country that undercuts them!
So in essence outsourcing works in the short term -however the world economy forces wages up – hence why in the USA there outsourcing is being
reversed -that is also happening in this country.
By: CIRCUS 6 - 19th January 2013 at 01:43
David,
You’re a businessman and want to make maximum profit. Do you
A) employ someone who demands the highest of wages?
B) employ a person who will do an equal job for half the money?
No brainer?
YOU decide who A and B are…
By: David Burke - 19th January 2013 at 00:47
People working in the U.K producing goods is not charity ! There is a perception that we are overpriced on labour in the U.K . Wait a few years and see what the effect of the Chinese economic trends have on their wage demands ! There are many companies looking at reversing the outsourcing of manufacture abroad due to intelectual property problems -delivery time and social unrest.
By: CIRCUS 6 - 19th January 2013 at 00:36
Proving Cking, that they’re into business not charity.
By: Cking - 18th January 2013 at 19:04
Lightning wasn’t made in Malaysia though…:diablo:
I’m sure all the staff he made redundant when he transferred production to the far east to maximize profits will be inspired too!:mad:
Rgds Cking
By: Wokka Bob - 18th January 2013 at 15:55
Perhaps Dyson’s thoughts turned to the last iconic all British manned missile, sorry interceptor.:diablo:
To think that was the last Lightning they let me loose on before a posting to fat alberts.:)
OC Engs Brief; heres your team, heres the aircraft. Take it to pieces, go to London and put it all back together again behind the Officers Mess (Uphill with a gully running down the middle of the road IIRC). Which we did. Sep/Oct 76.
:D:D
By: Ken Shabby - 18th January 2013 at 13:29
Lightning wasn’t made in Malaysia though…:diablo:
By: Phantom Phil - 18th January 2013 at 13:06
As a vacuum, the Lightning sucks well 😉
By: AutoStick - 18th January 2013 at 12:39
Anybody who preserves & displays an Aircraft gets my vote ….Even if not in its Perfect enviroment , it gets people thinking ……
By: nostalgair2 - 18th January 2013 at 11:28
Dyson
I would have thought a Tornado would be more fitting, isnt that the principal that these cleaners work on?
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