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- From: richardw@spider.co.uk (Richard W)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Norton Plans
- Message-ID: <richardw.722252377@redknee>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 09:39:37 GMT
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- roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer)
- and rct@fulcrum.co.uk (Richard Taylor) exchange:
-
- |I get all the British bike rags but it's been real quite around Norton
- |lately and I was wondering if the went belly up again.
-
- |>Norton as a company are financially unsound, and have been hanging on by the
- |>skin of their teeth for the last two years. It ins't clear that they will
- |>survive the current recession.
-
- |That's my primary concern. No telling how long they'll be around. I had
- |great hopes a couple of years back, but unlike Triumph they seem to have
- |a real hard time.
-
- Norton are the subject of a programme being televised in the UK next week,
- called "Troubleshooter II", where Sir John Harvey-Jones analyses and
- advises ailing businesses.
-
- This generally means the company is in a bad way, but most benefit
- greatly from Sir John's wisdom (and it's a *great* programme!)
-
- Incidently the Morgan car company were the subject of his treatment
- a few years back, but didn't take his advice, and are still in the same
- trouble. Let's hope Norton are more receptive.
-
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