Your hometown's greatest product

[evilC]

...and it can't be a person or a band!

Farnham hasn't got many, being a small, boring town. However, my parents told me, as I was growing up, how the coachwork for these used to be built in a factory on the trading estate at the end of our road:

The Ford Zephyr 'Farnham' Estate:



There were 'Farnham Estate' versions of the Zodiac and Consul, too.

They also told me that this was Britain's first proper 'estate' car, but I'm not sure if this means you'd have to class the Austin A40 as a hatchback. I also don't know the incept date of each of those models.

Anyway, it's a fine looking car, I feel and that's why I'm nominating it.

[ad hoc]

Your hometown's greatest product

[Gangster Octopus]

Your hometown's greatest product

Me

[Jimmy Bignutz]

Your hometown's greatest product



Although I absolutely hate it.

[ursus arctos]

Your hometown's greatest product

[Kusal Flyer]

Your hometown's greatest product

[Alderman Barnes]

Your hometown's greatest product

[G-Man]

Your hometown's greatest product

[Heliotrope]

Your hometown's greatest product

Nuclear submarines

I don't know where else to brag about this, so I choose this thread: a type of dulcimer and the second highest mountain in Antarctica are named for relatives of mine.

[ursus arctos]

Your hometown's greatest product

If we are doing birthplace instead of current location, it gets much harder for me, but:

[My Name Is Ian]

Your hometown's greatest product

St Albans used to have a big Marconi factory (closed and demolished to make way for flats) and a vulcanised rubber factory (closed and demolished to make way for flats). They used to make Minerva footballs just up the road at Sandridge, but I don't know if they still do.

I'm pretty certain that Ford Motor Credit is the biggest employer there, so the current answer may be "car loans". Or, since Steven Hawking went to school there, "A Brief History Of Time", though that would probably be something of a stretch.

[Gangster Octopus]

Your hometown's greatest product

Gangster Octopus wrote:

Me

Oh, and my great-great-great grandfather invented this :

[ad hoc]

Your hometown's greatest product

The colon?

[Mitch]

Your hometown's greatest product

Technically, this:



Although these have been more important in my life:

[Reed John]

Your hometown's greatest product

Meteorologists - something like a quarter of meteorologists are PSU graduates. Also Accuweather is based in SC.

Ice Cream and Ice Cream makers (including Ben & Jerry's - they learned at Penn State)

American football players

Volleyball players

A lot of the professional BMX freestyle/halfpipe riders live in State College and train in Woodward.

[Mumpo]

Your hometown's greatest product

Wikipedia says 'glass making'.

[Er Liquidatore]

Your hometown's greatest product

Tooting has given the world very little, sooooo.....

[EIM]

Your hometown's greatest product

CHRIST!

[Ginger Yellow]

Your hometown's greatest product

Depending on your definition, either the same as UA, this...



...or metal halides, made in the lab founded by my grandfather. Also, this:



And lots and lots of:

[garcia]

Your hometown's greatest product

i suppose most would say



maybe more high minded folks might go for



but speaking personally, neither have brought as much joy as

[sw2borshch]

Your hometown's greatest product

The modern world. But we get dog's abuse for it.

[noj]

Your hometown's greatest product

[beak]

Your hometown's greatest product



(and we're having Giggs, whether the Welsh like it or not..)

[Brandenburger Toro]

Your hometown's greatest product



But Wright's isn't the place to get it, Nicky's is.

[ursus arctos]

Your hometown's greatest product

Crap, the "oldest shop on the pier" was established in the year I was born . . .