Ive bought a crash helmet made in uk.

You should have stuck with the original plan Jon. 😁
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Probably Morocco he is doing a grand job in his working conditions. 😃 Bob.
 
Brains said:
As part of a lecture on global maritime trade that I used to do regularly, we used an quality office swivel chair "Made in Italy" as the chosen item.

We started with the steel in the leg,
iron ore mined in Australia,
smelted in China, with coal also from Australia, the ingots then made in steel in China
and then shipped to India to be made into tubes.

The plastic legs started as Saudi Arabian crude oil, refined in Singapore, the liquid plastic shipped to Hong Kong to be made into the star plastic base.

The castors and all the bolts are mixture of steel and plastic and came from Taiwan using the same routes as above

The chrome mixed in with the steel and used as a covering comes from Indonesia

The plywood seat base came from 'peeled' Canadian trees, the ply was stuck together using glue from Argentina.

The leather seat cover also came from Argentina (a by-product of all those Fray Bentos meat pies and Corned Beef is lots of leather and glue), with the leather going to India to be tanned and dyed using dying chemicals from Morocco.

The tanned and dyed leather is then shipped to Thailand for cutting and stitching using thread from Egypt.

All the components are then shipped to Italy, where the seat base is stuffed with wool from Azerbaijan, and the chair is assembled.
It is then boxed with cardboard shipped in from Norway, and shipped to the final consumer with 'Made in Italy' printed (with Indian ink) on the box.

The ships that moved these items of course come mostly from Europe, China, Singapore, Japan, Australia and Taiwan.
The crews on the ships come from everywhere, but particularly the Philippines.

A crash helmet is going have been on a similar journey
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Should have sat on an Orange crate, at least it's less air miles
 
Vikdikdok said:
Should have sat on an Orange crate, at least it's less air miles
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:LOL:
You missed post #15!
90% of everything around you, arrived by ship!

There are zero air miles assembling a chair or a helmet (or a crate of oranges)

Aeroplanes move three things, people, documents, and light items with a high value such as jewellery and some fruits,.
Where people are prepared to pay a lot of money for speed.

In round figures a freight broker will talk,
in dollars per kilo to move cargo by air,
but in cents per ton to move cargo by sea.
Air is typically around 100 times the cost per ton or kilo versus sea.
 
Think I'll stick with my Arai Helmets thanks.
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Still have a genuine ‘Made in England’ Davida Helmet, their version of a Crompton ‘Pudding Basin’ but with a optional peak(?), must be thirty years old at least and did a quite a few laps of Le Mans and other circuits in its’ time in various Morgans’

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Charente16 said:
Still have a genuine ‘Made in England’ Davida Helmet, their version of a Crompton ‘Pudding Basin’ but with a optional peak(?), must be thirty years old at least and did a quite a few laps of Le Mans and other circuits in its’ time in various Morgans’

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I've got my dad's old 60's? Cromwell pudding basin, definitely made in England, offered very little protection but it did it's job on numerous occasions 🙄



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