Re: 2 stroke / 4 stroke advice

It wasn't the new factories that enabled Japan, it was an American Quality 
Control expert.  And a set of managers that would listen to him.

Detroit refused to listen to Edward Demming who was telling American 
automobile manufacturers that the American people wanted cars that would
not 
only look good but run well, too. When the manufacturers failed to listen,

Demming took his ideas to Japan and for the next decade the Japanese owned

the American car market.

Roger
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> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:24:51 -0500, withheld <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>
>>Everybody tends to forget that Germany and Japan both had all brand new
>>factories that (by enlarge) we paid for in the late fourties, but the US
>>plants all got seriously beat up making the hardware to win that war.
>
> I always said the best thing we could ave done was bomb all our own
> factories in 1946 so we could all start fresh.
>
> I agree 100% it was the Japanese who made us stop making the same
> basic car we started WWII with. The same is true of outboard motors
> (to give this thread a "boaty" spin)
> My mercury is still a Yamaha design and a lot of the parts are
> interchangable until you get down the US designed "big foot".