Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>
> According to George Richardson:
> >
> > Silly? How are you going to get parts that TRF owns the tooling for from
> > someone else unless they canbuy them from TRF?
>
> How can TRF "own" the tooling for any british car part?? Rimmer is
> authorized by "British Motor Heritage" to remanufacture some parts
> that are not currently available. Can TRF claim the same credentials??
>
I think we are stuck on semantics here. TRF can own the tooling and not
have any exclusive rights to the part that is manufactured from that
tooling. The problem being tooling is expensive to fabricate and must
be expensed out over all the many parts that can be manufactured using
that tooling.
While anybody is free to manufacture their own tooling to produce
whatever they want, the cost is what makes it less attractive to do so.
If someone has already made that investment, it discourages others from
doing it too unless the market for that part is so large that it can
bear more than one manufacturer.
You don't need BMIHT's permission to make parts, it is just helpful to
have their blessing when you try to sell them.
Regards,
Joe Curry
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