Victa was destroyed under its previous owners GWA who also owned Rover and destroyed them. This seems to be a common MBA approach to doing business.
As to Briggs the seeds of their destruction was sown by not seeing Honda as their competitor back in the late 70's/80's and being late to the iron bore OHV party they seen Techumsech as their competitors for far too long. Their response of course, was to buy in designs manufactured from either Tomatsu (The 2 stroke), Diahatsu in the case of the Vanguard twins or Mitsubishi in the case of the smaller Vanguards. The 4hp OHV I have on my SB and the 6hp I have on a chipper I am sure are Mitsubishi designs made in China.
Are the OHV Briggs used on Chinese mowers a Briggs design or a Mitsubishi design made under license in China.
Last edited by GregR; 10/09/20 11:25 AM. Reason: typo
