Le Shovette

[vetran]

French owners of Peugeot seal £1.9m deal to buy Vauxhall | Daily Mail Online

French owners of Peugeot announce £1.9billion deal to buy car manufacturer Vauxhall putting thousands of British jobs at risk
PSA Group buys European arm of General Motors including Vauxhall and Opel
Vauxhall employs 1,830 staff at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire and 1,530 at Luton
GM has 38,000 staff, including more than 19,000 in Germany over 12 factories
Unions fear PSA could choose to shut its British factories over European ones

[Big Blue Plymouth]

French owners of Peugeot seal £1.9m deal to buy Vauxhall | Daily Mail Online

Did you know Peugeot made pepper mills before they made cars? That's what the lady in the Bath Kitchen Shop told me the other day.

[vetran]

Did you know Peugeot made pepper mills before they made cars? That's what the lady in the Bath Kitchen Shop told me the other day.

I have a 1950's Peugeot Coffee grinder.

[darmstadt]

Did you know Peugeot made pepper mills before they made cars? That's what the lady in the Bath Kitchen Shop told me the other day.

Still do I believe: https://peugeotwebshop.co.uk/salt-and-pepper-mills

[vetran]

slightly darker than that. I got it from my first employer.

[northernladyuk]

French owners of Peugeot seal £1.9m deal to buy Vauxhall | Daily Mail Online

Surely Peugeot would close its European factories to escape EU bureaucracy and keep open factories in the buccaneering trading nation of the UK?

[vetran]

Surely Peugeot would close its European factories to escape EU bureaucracy and keep open factories in the buccaneering trading nation of the UK?

not spent much time with the French then?

[barrydidit]

not spent much time with the French then?

There was a guy on the radio this morning saying vauxhaul/opel was a good buy since GM didn't promote them in China, so that was a new market for them. Plus 'French cars don't sell well in some countries' - those with alternatives I assume

[greenlake]

'French cars don't sell well in some countries'