On 15 Sep, 15:01, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Recliner wrote:
"Kev" wrote in message
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What surprises me is that there is a factory anywhere in London let
alone Croydon or the whole of SE England come to that. I thought that
London as a 100% service industry sector.

Well, given how often there are lineside fires in premises with
exploding gas cylinders, one has to assume there's actually still quite
a bit of manufacturing in the London area.

Is a site with gas cylinders necessarily a manufacturing operation?


Quite - acetylene cylinders can be used anywhere requiring welding,
such as a construction site, a breakers yard, a garage or a workshop.
Only the last might qualify as a manufacturing operation.

There isn't an enormous amount of actual manufacturing in London, but
perhaps sometimes people think of the service sector as solely
comprising offices, travel agents and florists. There's a lot of
warehouse, workshop and other hands-on type activities in London (for
want of a far better phrase), though quite often it's not always
immediately obvious where this is happening.