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charles wrote:
In article , Capitol
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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.

not Sony - they were st Bridgend.

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