@jackmarriott88: Before Toyota became a car giant, they were importing looms from England in the 1890s. Within decades, Japan went from copying our machines to beating us at our own game. Walking round this museum, you realise how quickly the balance of power can shift. #UKtok #HistoryTok #Toyota #JapanTrip #Perspective
British engineering was the best in the world for decades, whether it was textile machinery, automotive, aircraft, railway. Unfortunately, manufacturing has been a dirty word to our politicians since the 1960s. They prefer to base the economy on banking and services. Sad really.
2025-08-20 17:33:24
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LKY :
And england stole it from India which was navk then india Pakistan and Bangladesh 👍
2025-08-21 04:01:03
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ted :
the whole Japanese car industry was built on reverse engineering and copying British designs
2025-08-20 23:51:05
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Danny De Carteret :
you need to go check out a museum on Japanese wood carpentry skills it is insane, not only how intricately precise but also how complex some of the interlocking cuts are, as a builder it blew my mind .
2025-08-20 12:48:37
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salhcode :
My dad would tell me everything from the needle to the airplane was made in the UK when he was young, then it slowly became America
2025-08-26 15:43:12
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Sabrin :
Japan beat the west in our own game. I remember the memoirs of some british diplomat, he remembered his service as an envoy to Shogunate, he said when he just got his post he was staying in a wooden hut, and the city he was stationed in produced woven baskets and bamboo boats for fishing. After 40 years of his service, he remarked that shipyards of the city were producing steel battleships and destroyers no less impressive and massive than the ones he saw in London. I saw it on youtube channel “voices of the past”, there memoirs of various people are read outloud with sources and illustrations.
2025-08-20 16:29:43
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Luca De :
How do you think the Italians feel or the Spanish feel or the Persians feel and probably one day, the Americans will feel in regards to the Chinese? The fate of every empire
2025-08-21 02:26:06
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P.McVay :
The uk is definitely a third world country. Everyone who wants to work are struggling to get a job. We have no industry whatsoever. Why are we wasting time and money went we got tons of coal in the uk for example. You know why we don't mine it anymore, because the companies that ran the mines got greedy.
2025-08-21 02:29:25
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Iron Specs :
Seriously cool factory.
2025-08-20 12:18:57
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Has :
British engineers built Japan Navy ships, Same ships destroyed Soviet eastern and Atlantic fleets with few years in WW zero🙏
2025-08-20 23:33:40
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Waichung Sham :
A chip fabrication plant is alot more complicated than a textile machine
Should get some translation ear buds for stuff like that.
2025-08-20 12:22:30
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DeeDhun :
Then it was Japan now it is China .. Circle of life in manufacturing world I reckon
2025-08-20 12:21:55
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JoyStick ASMR :
The solo travel thing is so true 🤣 “wouldn’t be able to convince my mates to come to a textiles museum”
2025-09-02 17:58:41
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Uffington Parade :
You should get the glasses that translate in real time directly on the lense.
2025-08-20 21:11:01
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FlyingPheasantOfficial :
Britain taught Japan a lot, leather making, curry making 😂
2025-08-20 23:10:39
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Hirono :
Toyota was one of the first companies that industrialized the silk making industry in japan
2025-08-25 07:25:25
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police(ポリス) :
Japan learned a lot from Britain. Shipbuilding in particular was essential to Japan's development. Japan became a major shipbuilding power. However, it has now been overtaken by Korea and China, who learned Japanese shipbuilding technology. Japan is following the same path as Britain.
2025-08-21 02:21:04
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Extralime :
Without stolen resources and labor from violence and colonizating, England couldn’t keep up. I say that as an American whose country has yet to acknowledge it benefited from slavery
2025-09-05 07:45:15
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User :
Where in england cotton exactly grow? So it would've been produced in cotton growing country. Even now you ask anyone in England what does cotton plant look like I bet wouldn't know.
2025-08-21 07:25:58
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djn8391 :
the platt bros . exported machinery and expertise . throughout the empire . they didn't just export machinery. they sent fitters to show them how it works . all from Oldham 💪
2025-08-21 04:01:30
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Delta :
Nice😁💕
2025-09-15 09:21:15
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Scott_Mcdowell :
As if they have a machine from Oldham in Japan!
2025-08-23 07:33:53
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littlegraycats :
it was car company Toyota's dad that did the looms. it was his son that did the car company
2025-09-05 21:07:18
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