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Re: Licence Production?

Posted by Mikael O on Thu May 15, 2003 06:17:16 AM

In reply top Licence Production? posted by Paul McMillan on Thu May 15, 2003 04:15:34 AM

I'll sit down and read the published material on the Hawker Hart in Swedish production and service more thouroughly and get back to you on that.

I guess that you could be right that some material was imported from UK, though one must say that from a financial point of view a turn round rate of more than a year for the parts must have been a loss for the Hawker company... I guess they didn't have a .NET solution! :-)

Whats a bit intriguing is that three swedish companies built the Hawkers on licens, one of them built only three examples! Must have been quite ineffective too. 60% of the Harts in Swedish service were lost in accidents etc but only two people were killed.

/Mikael



: Interesting stuff Mikael
:
: BTW does your source safe if Licence production was just t
: hat (from raw material) or from parts supplied by the OEM
: (i.e Hawkers)
:
: I would have imagined that it would be cheaper to import t
: he bare bones from the UK (where Jigs existed) rather than
: build from scratch. Especially as built in 3 different pl
: aces in Sweden
:
: So it is possible that parts (made upto a few years before
: even) were imported into Sweden from the OEM and then in-
: corporated into the Swedish machines. Thats why some parts
: have Hawker numbers.....

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