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Article: East Kilbride Rolls out a Scottish success story
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 27, 2003
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DOWN at the Tam O'Shanter on a Saturday night, the average punter
will tell you two commonly-held opinions about Scotland: "We don't
make things any more" and "There's no way our manufacturers can
compete with the cheap Asian countries." He's wrong on both counts.
Rolls-Royce, which employs 2,500 staff between Glasgow and Thurso,
is a case in point. It has a plant in East Kilbride that repairs and
overhauls aero engines. In the past two years it has faced the sort
of difficulties that, if the man in the pub was right, should have
shut it down. And yet sales are up and the plant has recruited extra
staff in the past 18 months. It is a Scottish engineering success
story, and it deserves ...