The road the factory was on was named "Black and Decker Road" for over 20 years. Fayetteville was very happy to do everything it could for them to bring them to town for the jobs back then. When they announced they were closing down that factory, Fayetteville actually built a bypass that didn't go near Black and Decker and named that road Black and Decker Road. It renamed the road Black and Decker was actually on so that they had to change all of their correspondence including warranty cards, et al... :o) Fayetteville still lost the jobs though.


>I'd guess they were screwed by cheap Chinese imports and/or bashed by Bosch - my preference?
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>>Black and Decker power tools were made right here in Fayetteville, NC until this year. They just closed that factory down. They also make Ryobi tools. It is a U.S. company (or at least it was for years - so many are moving offshore and being bought by foreign companies who knows now. I was offered a job with them back in the late 90s and I toured the facility).
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>>>>>>>Strictly translated, it means "the pale", as the one whose skin is light colored.
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>>>>>>I.e. "bleached"? As in German "bleich"?
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>>>>>>I thought you're related to that guy Dekker Bleken who cuts trees to make decks ;).
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>>>>>Or his South African cousin, Bleken Dekker, who makes the power tools to do it with?
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>>>>Is this another Patrik FitzGerald vs Gerald FitzPatrick situation, eh?
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>>>No, they're a pair of Irish gay guys.
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>>>Surely you've heard of Black & Decker power tools? I think they're Canadian, and in England, second to Bosch in ubiquity.