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A round up of the week's stories from manufacturing and design: James Dyson on the hunt for the next great inventor, entries now open until August Scottish knitwear manufacturer has ' healthy order book ' British manufacturers losing out to foreign rivals UK 'most likely' base for new Rolls Royce plant And another thing... With the Southbank Centre 's Festival of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations underway you might want to have a look at a post from last September, featuring the original Festival of Britain catalogue .

Limited edition Minis to be decked out with Rolls Royce interior touches Reasonable Royal Wedding product alert: Stoke brewery partners with pottery to produce ceramic bottle Life at the Dyson R&D dept sounds pretty fun Retailer to fund UK manufacturing apprenticeships First new MG in 16 years rolls off production line at Longbridge, Birmingham

'The UK needs to rediscover its talent for making things.' Sir James Dyson , 2010 ( from Dezeen )

Came across this in today's International Herald Tribune. Dyson has some pertinent points, the best of which are as follows: 'Getting rich by making things is sort of dirty. That view pervades our culture.' (On how he was steered toward the classics and warned that if he did poorly in school he would end up in a factory.) 'It starts with the government, oddly... talking up and backing big engineering projects.' (On how the UK can change deep-seated cultural views toward engineering and manufacturing.)