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New Fri 18 Nov 11 12:09 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Falkirk Bairn
Winter tyres + investment saves existing jobs + 100 new jobs after investment in Dundee site.

www.heraldscotland.com/news/politics/700-jobs-are-secured-at-tyre-factory-1.1135553

Can I take back a wee bit of my previous comments on the French.
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 13:51 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - mikeyb
Speaking as someone who works for a French controlled company I can tell you that they are more canny that people give them credit for and are much better at looking at the bigger picture than many UK companies
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 14:17 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - R.P.
No brainer Mikey, France has a strong industrial base, we gave ours away.
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 14:40 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Dog
I wonder what Robert William Thomson would say about the French producing tyres in Scotland.
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 14:45 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Runfer D'Hills
The French and the Scots have a long standing trading relationship. It was though mildly inconvenienced at times by a somewhat uncouth and rowdy common neighbour.

:-)
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 14:59 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - DP
>> The French and the Scots have a long standing trading relationship. It was though mildly
>> inconvenienced at times by a somewhat uncouth and rowdy common neighbour.

Or is it the common contempt for said uncouth and rowdy neighbour that forms the very bedrock of the aforementioned relationship? ;-)
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 15:08 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Runfer D'Hills
le poulet ou l'oeuf?

:-)
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 22:07 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Roger.

>> Or is it the common contempt for said uncouth and rowdy neighbour that forms the
>> very bedrock of the aforementioned relationship? ;-)

No - it's the contempt OF the aforesaid neighbour! ;-)
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New Fri 18 Nov 11 15:12 
 Michelin take on 100 - make winter tyres in Dundee - Dog
>>The French and the Scots have a long standing trading relationship. It was though mildly inconvenienced at times by a somewhat uncouth and rowdy common neighbour<<

The leading Scottish historian, J.B. Black, said of the alliance: "The Scot's love for their 'auld' ally had never been a positive sentiment nourished by community of culture, but an artificially created affection based on the negative basis of hatred of England, and merely for the benefits brought by the philosophical theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"."

Wiki

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