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Default bloody ebay/amazon MP carp

On 21/04/17 10:51, Robin wrote:
On 21/04/2017 10:31, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

True. And suggests things made in other countries like the UK are always
perfect. If they had been, we'd still be making them. ;-)


I think there are some folk at Crewe who would argue they still do but -
as Marcus Sieff (M&S) used to say - "the price of perfection is
prohibitive"

price tends to infinity as quality tends to perfection.

Anyone who has worked to MILSPEC can tell you that ;-)


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