A lot of small UK businesses don't shout loud enough about what they do. This series will be a good one.

@markjoachen

2 ай бұрын

Probably scared of the tories policy to shut down all uk companys

@liveroom4235

2 ай бұрын

So the politicians don't take an interest and bugger everything up.

@zippehzuppah9046

2 ай бұрын

That's because we shouldn't always be patted on the back for every miniscule thing that we do, we don't need constant reasurance, we just get on with it.

@J0sI-I

2 ай бұрын

How can they? First how would they compete with the advertising budgets of larger companies? Back when it was the yellow pages or ads in the back of mags the reach would be lower but more meaningful. But now they'd what, spend a few thousand on google ads that everyone would ignore/use adblock on anyway?

@politics392

2 ай бұрын

Sorry to say its not great briton any more

A shame the politicians don’t share the enthusiasm of these hard working people. Great video.

@liveroom4235

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately our political class still look down on industry even though it's what built this country.

@andrewharris3900

2 ай бұрын

@@liveroom4235 preventing industry is what gets votes. Can't build anything in Britain, the housing ponzi scheme is the only game in town.

@tonysheerness2427

2 ай бұрын

They will sell it off if they could make money

@ptonpc

2 ай бұрын

The politicians made their millions from 'donations' and getting their businesses to bet on the economy faltering. They don't give a flying fart about ordinary people or businesses.

@khalidacosta7133

2 ай бұрын

@@tonysheerness2427 Yep and sadly don't understand that technical jobs like this end up creating a workforce that can invent something new.... and bring FAR more money into the economy.

Thank you David aka The Wandering Turnip! It was a pleasure to take part in your Made In Britain series. We are proud to be a UK Manufacturer, producing our rubber moulding components to sell to the UK and worldwide. We love our family business and our team of employees. Thanks so much for coming down to visit us! The video is brilliant! All the best from Grommets Ltd

@pimpozza

2 ай бұрын

Hats off to you at Grommets! Brilliant work.. fascinating vlog! 👏🇬🇧

@lewishill2012

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for letting us see the manufacturing process, I found it very interesting. Also, great to see such a lovely team at work. You can tell everyone is happy, and that can only be to good management.

@ruzziasht349

2 ай бұрын

I've made a note of who you are, as we often need rubber parts!

@willtricks9432

2 ай бұрын

Turnip is a good man, thanks for the insight to your business and success.

@bryanholden6487

2 ай бұрын

Grommets for everything!

Thank you David for coming down to meet us at Grommets HQ and for a brilliant video! We love it 🤩 it was lovely to meet you. Many thanks Charlotte, Jo and all at Grommets Ltd 😊

@pimpozza

2 ай бұрын

May Grommets go from strength to strength! Great vlog! And David had a go at rubber moulding.. 😁 Of course he didn't struggle!!💪👏🇬🇧🙋🏻‍♀️

@ade1963

2 ай бұрын

I really hope that one of your employees is called Wallace. If not, can you make it a requirement for the next job role you have to fill? 🤭

@skumar1993

15 күн бұрын

Long live Grommets Ltd 🇬🇧

I'm an electrician by trade. I used to fit grommets all the time in back boxes etc. I never used to think where they came from? I always thought they came from abroad! Who would have thought? That was really good that video! Good luck with the new series!

@totherarf

2 ай бұрын

TBH they Do come from abroad nowadays. ........ and they are made from PVC rather than rubber!

@Jonny_The_Organism

2 ай бұрын

An old school friend of mine had grommets put in his ears coz he couldn't hear proper...lazy ear syndrome...didn't wanna hear what was goin on around him. Lol

@markrainford1219

2 ай бұрын

@@Jonny_The_Organism Eh?

@Jonny_The_Organism

2 ай бұрын

@@markrainford1219 it's like hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil....

I bet that’s a lovely place to work! This is why small independent British companies are the best!

What a wonderful family business. I wish them every success for decades in the future. Naming the tool room after a worker who passed away says all you need to know.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. My Dad would have loved you. And he would have enjoyed a day like yours. He created a career for himself reparing and reconditioning commercial catering equipment. He had one representative, from a huge company, come and watch his work. At the end he told my Dad that he had nothing to teach him. Am so proud of MY Dad. Thank you for a great video.

@pimpozza

2 ай бұрын

What a lovely comment, Helen.. Dads like yours deserve tons of respect.. 🤗 🙋🏻‍♀️

@helensavvides6582

2 ай бұрын

@@pimpozza Thank you

Shame the politicians don't talk to great people like this and take some notice of their issues in order to try and help them. So happy you found this company who are doing an amazing job and hope they go from strength to strength.

@liveroom4235

2 ай бұрын

As Ronald Regan once said the nine most scary words he's ever heard are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'.

@andrewharris3900

2 ай бұрын

They seem to run their business just fine, I doubt a conversation with a politician would be beneficial. Politicians don't create wealth, they destroy it by transferring wealth from the useful and industrious to the useless and feckless.

@paulworthington8666

2 ай бұрын

No. The creeps in power are too busy "celebrating diversity" and concocting ever more excuses to defame and insult the great normal native British people.

@mf_rat

2 ай бұрын

Why would politicians try and help them? They despise all of us.

We often forget that the UK has the second largest aerospace industry after America. Also it's nice to see someone skillfully operate a centre lathe.

@deedahinkent

2 ай бұрын

Yep cut my engineering teeth on one just like that at EITB Sheffield 1979

@awatt

2 ай бұрын

@@deedahinkent Colchester Student Dean Smith and Grace. Can't remember the others.

@deedahinkent

2 ай бұрын

@@awatt 👍

@damianbutterworth2434

2 ай бұрын

@@awatt My mates got a Colchester in his shed. I`ve got a 1930`s American Le Blond 7 inch Regal in my shed lol.

@awatt

2 ай бұрын

@@damianbutterworth2434 I wish I had a shed.

And the fact they employ local people. These are important and what appear to be sustainable jobs. Well done. Grommets is now going to have to open for tours - we are all going to want to visit. LOL

Your enthusiasm and joy were a wonderful thing to witness. 🙂

There's a company in Rotherham AES Seal which made the lock gate bearing seals for the Suez Canal! Cracking cheese Grommet!

@deedahinkent

2 ай бұрын

Know it well used to work next door at ASD ❤ northern manufacturing👍

@davidthompson4662

2 ай бұрын

​@@deedahinkent are there locks in the Suez Canal?

@deedahinkent

2 ай бұрын

@@davidthompson4662 No idea to be honest .

@theelectricmonk3909

2 ай бұрын

@@davidthompson4662 Of course there are: How else do you think they close it up at night? ;) In all seriousness, no - there are no locks in the Suez Canal. Perhaps the OP meant the Panama Canal?

Fab video. You should check out the making of Henry vacuum cleaners. Not only British made, but repairable.

@jeta1f35

2 ай бұрын

Started in early 80's over 10 million Henrys have been produced ... great performance and incredible longevity ... mine is 40 years old and still going strong!

Fantastic place...hats off to them. Now David if u fancy a trip to the Isle of Man I can show you a company that produces Shaving Brushes for all over the world. Est manchester 1890 and it moved to the IOM 1954..its still thriving. There's a load of oddities over here that would suit your channel. Cheers mate👍

Would be really cool to see some bike manufacturers featured as part of this series; Brompton, Moulton and Thorn bikes come to mind as brands still manufactured in the Britain!

@keithhooper6123

2 ай бұрын

Jorvik tricycles,York,and Pashley in Stratford upon Avon.

@garysmith5025

2 ай бұрын

Hope Technology make exceptional quality components for bikes.

Your best video to date. Britain has always been a country of entrepreneurs. 🙂

Great t 😊😊o see,family business, love the toolrooom,i work at those laths all the time,repairing and servicing them for sale,the colchester's can be 30 years old and still turning out great work.still selling like hot buns as are Bridgeport mills,jones and shipman grinders.

Britain needs more production... Creating true value for the people.

I have bought from this company before when I worked for Ogier Electronics Ltd in St. Albans. Washers, connector inserts, cable sleeves/grommets, anti-vibration mounts, brilliant video again WT.

The lathe was going a bit fast for a High speed steel tool Hence the Sparks. Lovely series David. David and Lily.

@theelectricmonk3909

2 ай бұрын

It's actually a carbide insert tool - you still shouldn't get sparks, ideally, but the carbide can take it.

What the UK is great at, small businesses thriving on little industrial estates. Nobody knows what they make but they are successful. Another fantastic video Turnip, looking forward to the next one.

Never thought a company like this still exists in England, good for the local economy and people. Nice to see.

Made it Britain, Nice to see a decent hard working business.

Another great one. Great to see people like this that really care about what there doing.

Just love this series. Though I am an American, I definitely celebrate local family run businesses everywhere. We, and our governments, all should be doing everything we can to support local businesses and not as it feels always do the bidding of large blood-sucking corporations while ignoring these local heroes!

It's wonderful how much care they put into their product, removing that excess done in multiple steps and even after it's been through so many checks, they have someone at the end to manually clean up product and how much they put into maintain their old machines.

You should visit SME in Steyning, they still make tonearms, turntables and small airplane components all by hand in small batches. Everything made in house. I own an SME tonearm, quite expensive, but very good quality. Still the same design from 1984, but still quite the engineering feat!

This was brill. What an interesting video. Glad you had a good time. What lovely industrious people you met.

as an ex tool and die maker these machines bring back happy memories.

Great video mate. What a great factory. One you have to see is louvolite in Manchester they are only company that makes all the window blinds components in house and been doing it for years, they supply really good parts to the blinds industry. I love UK made bits. We should be very proud of our British manufacturing. ❤❤❤❤

Awesome series. Best wishes from Lake Waynoka, Ohio USA

Great video, lovely people and a home industry trying to survive despite all the obstacles thrown at it.

Great to see this in my home county.

Another excellent video 👏 these small businesses and the people who work in them are the backbone of this country. They need to be celebrated at every opportunity 👍🙂🚴

You are good competition for Gregg Wallace David. Well done!

Good fortune to them hope they keep going strong.

Brilliant idea for a series! I work for a pump manufacturing company based in Gloucestershire where we supply pumps for fire protection, waste and clean water, oil and gas industry etc. that get sent all over the world ( onshore and offshore). I’m sure I could pull a few strings.

Absolutely fantastic. David, you must of well enjoyed this. Well Done.

Good to see a British manufacturer expanding and continually looking at ways to develop further. Also, great to hear my home city mentioned. Sheffield made steel has always been the best

This is a 10/10 series that makes me proud to be British. It's crazy in the sense I recognized the name because when I was doing my electrician course we called the plastic things that block the 3 cores and earth from the metal of the backing boxes, Gromets (it's the main thing used in all places with electronics in all buildings).

Incredible work, so good to see the process of something I’d never considered and took for granted. You are now the Greg Wallace of KZread 😂

What an amazing business. Thanks for sharing 👍

The amount of love in this video is awesome!

Loved that video David, so kind of the family to give you full access too

Hi Turnip ,Thank you for vlogging positive content. Love all you do.

Love that you cover both independent craftsmen and small industry. I recommend getting in touch with Altberg Bootmakers in Yorkshire. If I'm not wrong they produce all the boots the army wears. And they're all made in Britain, made to be repaired.

@Filkersons

2 ай бұрын

The majority are made in Italy. They only make small batch specialist and prototype boots at the Yorkshire factory, still a great British company.

Made me think of “Wallace and Gromit”, so grommets are actually a thing! This is a great series, you’re doing. Shining a light on made in Britain products. 🇬🇧✨Your enthusiasm is contagious. I’d love to see you go to Stoke on Trent, and see some of the English pottery & ceramics made there, (Emma Bridgewater for example). You deserve a pint! Good job.✨♥️👍🏼

Nice blind grommets you made there, you got to make your own hole for the cable to pass through 👍🏼... the idea 💡 is that when you pass a cable thought a metal etc enclosure it will stop the cable insulation from getting chaffed when you pull it through or it gets pushed against potentially sharp metal holes 🕳 many mechanical and electrical uses ✋🏼

It's so l good to see this business thriving and to actually see stuff still made here in the UK. Can you please go to Scunthorpe and check out the high st. I haven't been there for 20 years, and I am curious as to what it is like there now. Enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work

Great to see it's not all doom and gloom, and all hope is not lost.

What a fab wee company and a lovely 2nd episode for this series. I've used grommets for my classic car to carry the cable through the wheel arch to the front headlights. So interesting to see how they work and the knowledge the staff have as well as what they can be used for! Please please please take a wee trip to Ernest Wright in Sheffield. I'd love to see the factory since I've purchased from them and supported them from 2018 on social media :)

So happy for them they deserve to thrive,thanks dave

Awesome series! As a jealous American viewer I only wish we had people highlighting our local business the same way you are now. Great video!

@ebrahimkarolia4812

2 ай бұрын

In america you have kevin potter. Proper old school.

Yet again you have surpassed yourself! Well done mate!!

Years ago I worked for a company called lec refrigeration.we used to use big presses to make difference parts and molds but like most factory's thay got brought out and shut down. I belive the lec brand is still going and so are the fridges .I think sime Darby brought it out and its now part of dimplex who build radiators up north

@keithhooper6123

2 ай бұрын

Used to sell loads of Lec,when I worked for a retailer.Started in 1978.

@davidthompson4662

2 ай бұрын

​@@keithhooper6123bought by a Chinese company, they moved the manufacturing there.

I thought it was the ear grommets too at first. Fascinating to see what the little bits of rubber are all used in. How cool and to be allowed to make some too. 👍😀

Fantastic. Very proud of them all ! ❤ congratulations Joanne on getting recognized for your efforts and your wonderful business. 👍

Good video David, hopefully Naim Audio in Salisbury will be in touch with you.

Brilliant video! Love to see the production of invisible components

Small to medium manufacturing businesses are the absolute backbone of the british economy. You should have no problem filling your channel with them for years to come. They need to be be publicised more. We waste too much time talking about big ticket stuff and overlook the bread and butter businesses.

Brilliant series and a brilliant company.

I am proud to be British. Sometimes you feel there is no hope for humanity . Then you see these truly hard working families who are back bone of this land makes me feel happy and somber at the same time.

@pimpozza

2 ай бұрын

Well said! 👏👍🇬🇧

Absolutely loving this series mate, its so important to show where the UK can still excel in specialist manufacturing. Cant wait to see what else you've got in store for us for the rest of the series.

Another great episode mate, I'm really loving this series of videos. These small British companies are so important. You can really feel how proud they are and so they should be! Can't wait to see more! ❤

This will be a great series, it's had a good start

This was good episode. Keep them coming.

What a great series and so interesting thank you from New Zealand

Great video ❤ good to see another made in Britain video

Loving the new series . 👌 great to see these amazing small businesses ❤

It’s good to see your KZread channel supports British manufacturing. When we look at our decimated towns outside London we need to reshore manufacturing from China and elsewhere to rebuild our damaged economy. Bearing in mind manufacturing is a win win situation because it helps build local communities and infrastructure and instills pride. As I remember from my childhood, that fateful moment when the Matchbox factory in Hackney Marshes closed down and became derelict after it was taken over by Mattel. That being said, innovation must always be at the heart of british manufacturing, so British manufacturers can keep up with foreign competitors and stay ahead. But for that to happen we need a strong government that supports British innovation and British manufacturing. 🇬🇧

Made In Britain is great. Keep going

This is great to see ❤️🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧❤️

Yeah, that was wonderful to watch. Well done on this series, nice to see something positive for once.

Really great entertaining video, love the enthusiasm. Well done Grommets and The Wandering Turnip

Very simple and easy really and i am surprised that this is now not done by automative machines seeing that this company is so old, but know doubt there must be a good reason for that as well 🤙Companies like this need alot more support instead of giving money only to large companies that end up selling up in the end anyway.

I love buying old tools etc that say made in England, so well made.

It´s not the people, not the companies or the people making the products. The problem lies with the government and a silly system that allows one polictical party to have so much say. Brexit, driven by a few rich people, did not help that and this should be admitted. He admits he has an Irish passport, is a citizen of that country, something that can help them in their business no end. Nice to hear Sussex accents having lived there most of my life.

@chewy66

2 ай бұрын

The EU is the elephant in the room; they make businesses complete more paperwork and jump through hoops. If the EU didn't exist, we wouldn't have a problem. Happy days, eh?

@stevewaters219

2 ай бұрын

Watching those machines run, the cost of energy must be a big factor also. We are all being robbed by the big corporations.

Great video. Fascinating to see this kind of work has not all been farmed out to some fully automated factory in the far east.

I love these pure documentaries. So interesting, that they producing for so many different industries.

Nice One Mate Keep it Up!

Very interesting. It is good to see a positive video, we need some of these in these challenging times

This is going to be a great series, you could try and follow one of the grommets to the company where it is used (assuming it is in Britain).

What lovely people, been through some tough times and still ploughing on with a smile ❤

I'm a tinkerer, a repairer, plumber and electrician and every time I see and replace a grommet or rubber seal I'll be checking the packet to make sure it's Grommets UK.

You need to visit Mansfield, so many old derelict buildings being knocked down instead of repurposed, old skills and trades have gone with them😢

Great concept for a series! Looking forward to seeing more

Never knew they made those rubber parts here,great to see though,good video 👍

Great to watch a small company making grommets

great to see a British manufacturing firm

I’m loving this series, so wholesome and heart warming. You can tell you make people feel really at ease in your presence, great interview x

Great vid. 🇬🇧

Very interesting, love it, made in Britain

Look forward to more fellow artists in UK love seeing the creativity I wish the gov't would help them show off what they do as sure hard going advertising themselves. Wonderful to see :) Thank you David and this lovely company deserves hugs for all they have gone through wishing them much success.

It was good to see a smile on your face Wandering Turnip, don’t often see that when you show the depressing stuff. Love your work👍

It's great to see The Grommet family flying the flag for Britain. Their 100 percent quality control is exceptional. Swede, did they manage to understand you or did you have to take an interpreter with you? sorry Swede couldn't resist that one. Good video, keep them coming. Cheers Millysue

WT,This company were in springfield road,in Horsham ,and as an electrical engineer, used their quality products on a lot of my installations a few years ago, i had thought,that they moved to Henfield, so are they in Brighton now?.

@terrys1595

2 ай бұрын

Unit 2 Hollands Ln, Henfield BN5 9QY It's amazing what you can find out on the internet or Google maps 😋

That takes me back 30 years working in a rubber moulding factory, they are still in the UK.

Another great one David, I used to race those Stock Cars at Chessington a few years ago, we used to race down at Brighton as well and I'm sure I remember Andy. 🤔

This is looking like its going to be a fab series!Great content so interesting and reported from an intelligent man..so good to see your channel getting bigger and bigger!❤