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First Black Shadow - Stevenage workers
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<blockquote data-quote="Prince Duster" data-source="post: 108128" data-attributes="member: 154"><p>Several of the workers from Stevenage who Gerry Jenkinson and I have spoken to, including Dave Bowen on this forum, have confirmed this. PCV was not, indeed, complicit - but bikes were made to look finished when in reality they were part-assembled in order that senior management were confident X-amount of cycles were ready to be dispatched and sold that week. It was hand-to-mouth manufacturing for much of the time: creditors needed numbers to keep them at bay, workers would - as could happen in British manufacturing - shift production items to keep the bosses at bay. Numbers were stamped late in the whole process. David Lancaster</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prince Duster, post: 108128, member: 154"] Several of the workers from Stevenage who Gerry Jenkinson and I have spoken to, including Dave Bowen on this forum, have confirmed this. PCV was not, indeed, complicit - but bikes were made to look finished when in reality they were part-assembled in order that senior management were confident X-amount of cycles were ready to be dispatched and sold that week. It was hand-to-mouth manufacturing for much of the time: creditors needed numbers to keep them at bay, workers would - as could happen in British manufacturing - shift production items to keep the bosses at bay. Numbers were stamped late in the whole process. David Lancaster [/QUOTE]
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