*edit* yup these guys
Caged [Edited on 5-7-07 by Pezza]
Today I dropped off my conduit templates to a firm that was recommended to roll my side rails for the motaleira.
In conversation the owner of the company showed me a stack of roll cages for catering vans plus a load of billet aluminium parts for the
suspension.
I won't divulge the company and I doubt that they will do any back door deals, so don't ask!
It just goes to show that the image created by these big car manufacturers is just that, image.
I know they designed/redesigned the car but it is still the small engineering firms that are making the cars!
Isn't it caged that make all the chassis' now? read an article on it somewhere.
*edit* yup these guys Caged
[Edited on 5-7-07 by Pezza]
This is not the "Caged" company.
Down South or up north ?
regards
Agriv8
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Originally posted by Agriv8
Down South or up north ?
regards
Agriv8
So "Caged" who are famous for making rollcages are making the chassis whereas they've got someone else making the rollcage? Sounds very
bizarre!!!!
ps
which road in Croydon, Surrey?
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Originally posted by BenB
So "Caged" who are famous for making rollcages are making the chassis whereas they've got someone else making the rollcage? Sounds very bizarre!!!!
ps
which road in Croydon, Surrey?
I'm going to guess Morland Road.
http://www.kellysearch.co.uk/gb-company-5724781.html
Slightly off topic but I guess on it to.......
My work takes me into lots of different production facilities, food, pharmaceutical then onto woodworking through to car manufacturer.......
Next time you buy a Mcvitties biscuit, a hovis loaf, a whoever's paracetamol you can rest assured it was most likely not manufactured by the
brand name on the packet but by one of their competitors and labeled appropriately.
Ive never seen Walkers crisps anywhere but Walkers but you would be amazed what you see at KP for example.......
Oh and beer ? Its all a name on the tin and thats about it........
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Originally posted by iank
I'm going to guess Morland Road.
http://www.kellysearch.co.uk/gb-company-5724781.html
Stuck "croydon metal tube" into google and clicked pages from the UK.
Top item just looked right.
This happens all the time in industries I've worked in.
Once worked on a new staff canteen for a major multinational blue chip company. They placed an order for the counters with another well known
company, who subbed it out, they subbed it out, and again, until it ended up being a small 2 man company in Liverpool making the counters. With
everyone taking their cut the client got a crap counter for a premium cost. As Darren @ GTS recently found out on here, QA went out the window.
Another example was a new build flagship store for a premium high street store. They placed the order with a multinational construction firm, who
immediately subbed it out to a local builder, who in turn subbed it out to another firm. Ended up with most of the shop fit being done by two blokes
out of a 10 year old Sprinter Van with no premises!
Mike
A utility company (water) I know subs all the digging up of the roads to one of 3 companies, who in turn either sub the work or employ gangs of Polish
workers who dont speak any English.
This why roads get re-dug up about 3 weeks after work was completed, as the original work (usually joints/couplings on slip-lined pipes) fail as is it
was not done correctly in the first place.
Stupid thing is that this utility company has to pay the sub to repair the work they messed up in the first place, as well as us having to put with
more road works!!
Was it Joel? 
Sorry mate, only kidding 
Nah, it wasn't Joel, there's three of them in his gang!
Mike
Company I work for has a contract to build a school, we have sub contractors doing the steel erection, cladding, roofing, scaffolding, safety netting, groundworks and the principle contractor is doing the brickwork. As the contrator who took the job though they still need to have a site supervisor to sit on his arse ten hours a day in an office pushing paperwork from the subbies to the principle contractor and vise versa. I am very bored doing this as I don't like paperwork, much happier swinging on the hammers.
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Originally posted by gazza285
they still need to have a site supervisor to sit on his arse ten hours a day in an office
)
I do get an extra fifty pence on my rate though, just booked my trip to the Bahamas now I'm on management rate
.
Interesting on the cateringvan cages.
We are racing (I say we, I am spannering not owning or driving! ) a C400 caterham duratec race car, brand new one this year, and it has a
"caged" rollcage on it as I checked only a couple of days ago.