Originally Posted By: Kerryman
The Gun and its Development (1910 edition) W.W. Greener ..
“In no country are better sportsmen to be found than in the United States of America, nor does any country posses keener buyers or better men of business, yet in no country is so much worthless rubbish of the (mass production) gun-factories offered for sale. The Boers are a race of sportsmen, but it is of no use to offer them rubbish at any price, and the author can hardly believe that the astute American will sacrifice everything to cheapness."
K.


Interesting quote, especially in light of the fact that by 1905 British gun sales to the USA had dropped to only $20,000 a year. So is Greener decrying American buyers or the inability to compete because of his labor costs? Labor costs that could not compete with either the dying Belgian guild system nor the American factories.

Pete

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