When the first Japanese TVs came to the U.K. the U.K. manufacturers got a shock – they all worked. The U.K. manufacturers accepted a failure rate on the sets they shipped. The public quickly twigged and Japanese TVs became popular. GEC realising, too late, that it could not out-manufacture the Japanese, set up a manufacturing …
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