Cursitor Doom wrote
Dave Plowman (News) wrote

You could still buy a AVO 8 new until recently,
IIRC. Thick end of a grand. ;-)

Yes, but this is "pwopper quality" we're talking here and it doesn't
come cheap. None of your Chinese junk that falls to bits in 5 minutes.

My Fluke 17 is in fact made in China. And so is my iphone.

Neither has fallen to bits at all and the Fluke has lasted fine
for 15 years now.

There was another English firm that made this gargantuan, museumesque
type of stuff, too. Megger was it? Probably folded decades ago.

Nope, still around
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megger_Group_Limited