The Week

[Doug Henwood]

Dennis R Redmond wrote:

>Brits may think they're looking down, but that's because they're looking
>at a mirror which is pointed up. The mighty UK machine-tools industry
>circa 1999, stats courtesy of the Gardner Group (note further that the US,
>French and UK positions are inflated by continued excessive military
>spending, something Canada, at least, can't be accused of):

Just to play devil's advocate, who cares about machine tools? They're 
so noisy & messy. What's so good about them?

Doug