While it's sad that Clico went out of business, I think I can understand why.
The video illustrates lots of labor intensive hand work the make one unit.
Having spent lots of time watching How It's Made, I feel confident that there
are automated computer controlled machines that can do this same work more
quickly and with greater precision. Perhaps retooling and retraining were too
expensive.

Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year to you all!

John

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On Dec 24, 2017, at 3:27 PM, John Leyden mailto:leydenjl@g...">mailto:leydenjl@g...>> wrote:

On a related note, another galoot asked me off-list whether the company that had
the auger factory in the video I mentioned the other day was still in business.
Apparently it is not. The company was Clico, of Sheffield, and it looks like it
went out of business almost exactly three years ago.   :-(