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Thanks for this insider knowledge.
I'm trying to remember when in 2016 the Greenford factory opened.
I'm often passing through Greenford, but normally one road over to the West,
so did not routinely cycle past the entrance to the industrial estate.
'7-day working'?
The production line never stops but the worker do a normal 5-on 2-off rotating shift?
Any idea how many (apprentice?) braziers Brompton were training up?
mespilus-
'7-day working'?
The production line never stops but the worker do a normal 5-on 2-off rotating shift?Yeah, line ran 7 days a week but the people working on it had regular shifts. The example I remember people being frustrated by was not being able to pick up and drop off children at school because they were working then Monday-Thursday
Any idea how many (apprentice?) braziers Brompton were training up?
A stab in the dark would be 3/5 training, out of about 20 on the line brazing frame parts but I can't remember exactly.
rj
I worked there in 2016 a few weeks after they moved in. At the time they had changed from running 7 days a week in chiswick to 1 much bigger production line 4 days a week.
They were fitting out a second line, at the time which (back of the envelop calculations) could let them make 150k/160k bikes a year. At the time they were making 45k bikes a year with an 8 week wait. The people who worked on the line preferred the 7 day working so I imagine they would try to run the factory 7 days a week before introducing the 2nd line.
You also can't increase your workforce overnight, sustainable growth etc and it takes time to train a brazer which is the real bottleneck.