|
Title: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: maylen on August 27, 2015, 15:56:09 Hello everyone,
This is my first post here but I'm sure I'm going to have a few more questions in the next few weeks. I'm trying to find out who does the upholstery manufacture of the seats for FGW/GWR? I'm particularly interested in the textile part of this. I'm hoping this is done in the UK but I fear it may be done abroad. Does anyone have an ideas? thanks Title: Re: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: grahame on August 27, 2015, 17:07:55 Welcome to the forum, Maylen.
I don't know the answer to your question on the HST - but I have come across a "where are the British Contracts for IEP" page - at http://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/hitachirail-eu/images/uk-based-suppliers-for-class-800-801-trains-for-iep-374714 . It lists interior design in the UK, but not the furnishings ... Many of the HST refits are done at Kilmarnock (Wabtec) and they're more likely to know the material sources than FGW - a subcontract. But then even when you find where the cloth is woven, the raw material may come from a further location / country ... Title: Re: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: onthecushions on August 27, 2015, 22:12:22 Welcome Maylen. Try looking up Moquette and Houldsworths (a Huddersfield woollen mill). It might surprise you how many of the world's PT (bus and rail) passengers sit on Yorkshire cloth. OTC Title: Re: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: Red Squirrel on August 28, 2015, 14:33:32 Welcome Maylen. Try looking up Moquette and Houldsworths (a Huddersfield woollen mill). It might surprise you how many of the world's PT (bus and rail) passengers sit on Yorkshire cloth. OTC For the record, it's 'Holdsworth' (without the 'u') - except they're Camira now, and they manufacture abroad as well as in Yorkshire. Title: Re: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: Bmblbzzz on September 18, 2015, 23:17:38 No upholstery here!
(http://www.headsetpress.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/holdsworth_professional_2015.jpg) Title: Re: Upholstery Manufacture Post by: Red Squirrel on September 20, 2015, 22:19:53 Not sure which wheel I like best. Wouldn't want to ride it in the rain!
This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |