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as you now we had our sunderland tour yesterdaywhat as fantastic day it was , only a few juke owners but they more than made up for it being a really great bunch and thoroughly enjoyed meeting them all , the whole group qq and juke just seemed to get on great like we had known each other for years , the few beers we indulged in was nice and a nice carvery aswellheres a few mixed pics of the day and a couple of videos , we were given special permission to take pics as its usually not allowed but no flashes as the workers dont need us lot flashing cameras in there faces while doing what is very likely a stressfull job , the cars move along constantly and 59 seconds is all each worker gets to complete the fitting of there parts before the car has moved into the next chaps bay for hime to do his stuff , if the line stops for any reason it costs nissan £3000 a minute while its stationary loads of information from barry the guide who satrted there back when the plant first opened in 85 and was a fountain of knowledge , the cars are now 80% built by automated robots and 20% human as apposed to 80% humand and 20% robots when it first opened , there are unmanned trolleys that carry parts around the plant which was very cool to see to think that almost all assembly jobs including fitting the engine and drive train takes less than a minute was unbelievable Currently they produce 480,000 vehicles a year. Their target this year is 500,000.there are 780 robots in the factory and they all work in synch with each other...they are almost human...it's weird to watch.they were mostly LhD drive cars and were mostly Black, Gun Metallic, Silver and loads of Caffe Latte.if I remember correctly, if we had followed the whole paint line it would have been 7km just for that bit alone but it was mentioned that 80% of the cars built there are lefty's ,they paint cars in batches of the same colour in batches of 20, the ovens that bake the paint on take up to 50 at a time!,!The varieties of wheels on the cars was staggering , there were loads of wheel types that i had never seen presumably for the foreign market...as barry (the guide) said we were unlikely to remember much of the info as there was just soooo much being fired at us but what a great daybig thanks to all for attending and i was humbled / shocked and a wee bit embarrassed at the presentation of the gift bags i recieved and the round of applause (did i go as red as i felt )any way heres a few of the pics you all took and some videos that may interest some of youHere is our Fee..Journey Up, Pit Stops and PickUps
ctrdetailing2012-02-14 11:00:24
ctrdetailing2012-02-14 11:00:24
