On 12/04/2016 16:57, pamela wrote:


I don't know why you are so concerned with buying British lab
equipment if there are perfectly good alternatives from other
countries. I wonder if you make such points when talking about

I never made that claim. My original statement was that companies like
Coulter and Beckman (And Hewlett Packard, Digital, IBM, ...) exist
because they are private companies supplying a massive local USA market
that is driven by profit, unlike our NHS. Coulter started in 1946 and
Beckman Coulter have now sold 275,000 analysers to 7 continents. Without
this US technology the NHS would not be able to function.
even if Coulter had never existed, you can bet that every UK pathology
lab would be full of German, Swiss, Japanese or Swedish analysers.

Meanwhile on this side of the pond, many of the British companies I
mentioned above only existed because socialist grants kept them alive.
The NRDC were behind Digico, which itself had links back to Elliot, the
founder of Digico then had something to do with the Inmos transputer.
Where are these companies today ?.The only British success story is ARM,
but that was never tainted by socialism (apart from the BBCs involvement).