Harly and Leica

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Dear Sir
The H-D situation was a bit differnt. Harley had just depleted their
capitol buying themselves back from AMF, and the US economy was in a
severe recession at that time (early 80's), and the Japanese were
dumping product into the market the way they had done in other areas. As
you may know the Japanese would sell below cost and once they dominated
the market they raised prices.

Harley asked for government intervention, but when things turned around
quicker than expected THEY ASKED THE GOVERNMENT TO REMOVE THE TARIFF.

I think the point here is that Harley dramatically improved their
product and today are at the top of the large displacement top quality
class (tied with Honda in units sold, last time I checked) and are far
ahead when it comes to dollar value of the bikes.

It goes to show that small high quality outfits like Harly or Leica can
compete with the overseas giants with superior product, and sometimes a
little gov help.

PS I e-mailed you rather than post to the group because I felt this
might be off topic.

Regards, Mark.
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