worntorn
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What, no letters behind your name? :shock:
I don,t mind, you can still build my MK3 starter parts and I'm sure they will be good!
As you point out, the drop in the pound is going to have a big effect on UK business.
Our Canadian dollar goes up and down against the US$ in a big way at times. A low CDN dollar is generally good for export manufacturing businesses within Canada as the bulk of their costs are in CDN $ but the sales are generally in US$.
The same might be true for Norton to a degree as they seem to be selling quite a few bikes in the US now.
All of their assembly labour( the hand built thing) is said to be in the UK, so they are insulated from the low Pound on that at least.
When they started production the claim was that the bikes were made entirely from components manufactured in the UK. There were problems with that, but I recall Garner saying that they were going " to in house production" on many components.
If that is true they might actually do quite well from the low Pound.
Glen
I don,t mind, you can still build my MK3 starter parts and I'm sure they will be good!
As you point out, the drop in the pound is going to have a big effect on UK business.
Our Canadian dollar goes up and down against the US$ in a big way at times. A low CDN dollar is generally good for export manufacturing businesses within Canada as the bulk of their costs are in CDN $ but the sales are generally in US$.
The same might be true for Norton to a degree as they seem to be selling quite a few bikes in the US now.
All of their assembly labour( the hand built thing) is said to be in the UK, so they are insulated from the low Pound on that at least.
When they started production the claim was that the bikes were made entirely from components manufactured in the UK. There were problems with that, but I recall Garner saying that they were going " to in house production" on many components.
If that is true they might actually do quite well from the low Pound.
Glen