Pilgrimage to Filton

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Originally Posted by Ashley James

We manufacturer hi fi and sell it all over the world, it's
comparatively expensive, it has a devoted following and owners club
as does Bristol Cars, which means that we too, get lots of enquiries
from people wishing to visit, however we're very busy and it's not
always convenient to see people, so we have to turn most away.
Perhaps it's the same for BCL.

Ash

Facilities visits are always time-consumming for staff, and consequently expensive.

Here in Kentucky, most of the area's horse farms where mares are bred and foaled, and stallions stand, thoroughbred horse farm tours are almost none-existent now, primarily for this reason. Visitors demand the tour be led by a knowledgable person; such persons usually have a heavy load of responsibilities to carry out.

In our manufacturing business, we had tours, but exclusively for customers, not for the general public.

Each business has to set its own standards.

We visited the RR-Bentley Crewe plant in the early 2000s. In essence, all we saw was some of the paint line and some assembly...no true manufacturing.