What I really meant to say, Peter, is that Detroit and Flint didn't either. Totally dependent on specialist outworkers. And there again, patented items that can't be licensed have to be purchased. Chrysler made automatic transmissions for the now defunct American Motors. The Brum trade fascinates and the "royally appointed" Londoners more so but their workaday schemes are hardly so exotic as to be unimaginable from the viewpt. of Yankee experience.

jack