charles wrote:
In article ,
Capitol wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:
He will then find there is a defect in the bearing or pullwey and need
a spare. We used to make TVs in this country back in the early 70s, but
they needed a live in engineer for the first couple of months.


Brian


That's because a lot of the market was rental and you needed to prove
to the customer that it was cheaper than buying the product. Redifusion
used to recall their sets after about 5 years and refurbish them to get
another 5 years life cheaply. The ideal fault free life was 12 months
IIRC! The Japanese buggered up the market by making reliable sets!

Like the factory at Hirwaun in south Wales, jointly owned by GEC and a
Japanese company. The product was "badge engineered", both makes coming off
the same production line. Nobody wanted to buy the "unreliable" British
make, but the Japanese one sold so well that the Japanese took over the
whole production line.


That was Sony IIRC Toshiba took over Bush at Plymouth.