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  Whilst I hate to see British workers in a British factory lose their jobs we all ought to remember that Bombardier are in fact a Canadian corporation albeit now global in reach - started in 1937 by Joseph-Armand Bombardier selling 7 seater snowmobiles in Quebec.
  
  The history of their rail manufacturing business is as follows
  1974 following the fuel crisis they utilise spare manufacturing capacity to successfully compete to build stock for the Montreal Metro
  In 1986 it acquired a 45% stake in the Belgian manufacturer BN Constructions Ferroviaires et Métalliques S.A.
  In 1989 they acquire ANF-Industrie, France's second largest manufacturer of railway equipment.
  In 1990, they enter the U.K. market for the first time, acquiring Procor Engineering Limited. Then in 1992, they acquire Mexican rolling stock manufacturer Constructura Nacional de Carros de Ferrocarril.
  In the latter half of the 1990s they acquire Waggonfabrik Talbot GmbH & Co. and Deutsche Waggonbau AG (DWA).
  In 2001 Bombardier acquires Germany-based DaimlerChrysler AG's subsidiary DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems GmbH (Adtranz).
  In 2002 they move their global rail manufacturing business headquarters to Berlin.
  
  They have also worked with Siemans on various projects most noticeably the ICE3 generation of High Speed intercity trains that form the backbone of the German ICE network
  
  (Source Bombardier web site)

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