Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

Home › Forums › General Trade Forum › Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

Viewing 11 posts - 1 through 11 (of 11 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • July 5, 2005 at 10:09 am #10518
    Dave_Conway
    Participant

    Whirlpool’s main UK distribution warehouse for both spares and appliances has been destroyed by fire.

    News on the front page and on the BBC website here:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4651241.stm

    and here:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4650191.stm

    Expect major delays on parts distribution and appliance deliveries no doubt 🙁

    Thankfully no-one was injured 🙂

    Dave.

    July 5, 2005 at 10:40 am #140424
    alexa
    Participant

    Couldn’t sell the new machines.
    Also no body wanted to repair the ones they had so no spares required either

    July 5, 2005 at 11:19 am #140425
    ali-p
    Participant

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    Very pleased that there were no injuries

    there is a fire damaged stock sale – any colour you like as long as its black!

    great picture at height of blaze on

    http://www.kentonline.co.uk/news/defaul … trecord=-1.

    July 5, 2005 at 2:57 pm #140426
    admin
    Keymaster

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    I believe when fully stocked it could hold 90,000 appliances. I walked around the warehouse several years ago, shaped like a banana and able to receive train loads of appliances right into the building for easy fork lift unloading.

    Suppose there will be a shortage of appliances for quite a while and I wonder what effect this will have on in guarantee repairs for their network in the months to come?


    Kevin

    July 6, 2005 at 12:38 am #140427
    Pat-UK
    Participant

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    It’s just up the road from me, has caused caos with the trains and roads.

    But ….. (trying not to giggle too much)

    Does that no mean that they have a legitimate excuse for not being able to fix under guarentee machines ??

    Had a really upset customer phone up 2 weeks ago with a american GSC9455 with a faulty pump, who had been waiting 2 months for the part to come from abroad…

    I told her I could get the pump in on next day delivery and fix it the following day, After she phoned Whirlpool and told them that I was going to repair it and she was sending them the bill, they said that they would be down before the end of the week with the part that was supposedly still abroad.. Funny That Eh !!

    July 6, 2005 at 8:36 am #140428
    cornwell40
    Participant

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    Not the tumble dryer testing section was it by any chance?


    T C

    July 6, 2005 at 11:51 am #140429
    alexa
    Participant

    No the Pyroletic oven testing

    July 7, 2005 at 8:58 pm #140430
    admin
    Keymaster

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    Local news has it that the fire was started by a bolt of lightning splitting open one of the propane cylinders which is used to power the forklift trucks.

    July 7, 2005 at 10:37 pm #140431
    alexa
    Participant

    God works in mysterious ways

    July 7, 2005 at 11:43 pm #140432
    paulpaddison
    Participant

    Re: Whirlpool’s Paddock Wood Destroyed by Fire

    are you shure fire wasent caused by there faulty goods ?
    😀

    Whirlpool: Whirlpool recalls 529,000 KitchenAid coffee makers

    About 529,000 KitchenAid coffee makers have been recalled by Whirlpool Corp. because an internal electrical component can overheat and ignite, posing a fire hazard

    Posted by kwatt on Friday, June 03 @ 11:51:07 BST (62 reads)
    (Read More… | 564 bytes more | comments? | | Score: 0)

    July 7, 2005 at 11:48 pm #140433
    alexa
    Participant

    I believe it was caused by the Indesit dishwasher in the staffroom.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 11 posts - 1 through 11 (of 11 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.