Quality of a Wilhelmina made in Amsterdam

[seb1899]

Can anyone tell me where Wilhelmina 6 x 12 snooker table might be in ranking of table quality.

The only site I found was a Dutch site whose English pages did not work. I am familiar with Cheviot and Gabriels and of course the British manufacturers but know nothing about Willelmina. One is for sale locally.

[maryfield]

seb1899 My email is working again, in case you tried it. Maybe Geoff Large may know something of this table. I haven`t came accross it in my 20 years trading.

[Geoff Large]

Looking at their web site

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...%26prmd%3Divns

and you can translate it , the tables are not in veiw , but the lighting is and I am sure the lighting are chinese made ... I also have never seen one in the Uk or on my travels in europe , but have a sneaky feeling the tables will be of chinese origin .
I am not saying 100% that they do not make tables , the only one I can find on their web site is a fold up 6ft to veiw .
If they made tables themselves then surely they would have pictures of Full size tables on the web site and photo's of their workshops .

I do know of one uk maker who says his tables are UK made , he even posts photo's of the empty workshop showing all the wood work machines , I put the photo in my folder , then put it back up and zoomed in on the machine control panel to find .... all the instructions on the buttons was in chinese ?

that was why no people where at the machines operating them , they would clearly show chinese People working the machines .
You have to watch out for this type of practice , and he is still operating and selling as UK made tables .

I am not saying Wihelmina tables are made in china but they could be as the web site has no photo's of manufacture , which is a must to promote youre own made tables .

[maryfield]

Know exactly who you are talking about Geoff. Sharp practice if there was ever one!. I have spoken to him on the phone several times and he is adamant they are UK made. Why trading standards haven`t stopped this I don`t know.