Trev, mass produced cheap products flooding the world, regardless of the quality will eventually wipe out any manufacturer of a quality product.Everything has to chase down to the lowest dollar The only exception to this so far appears to be German products that have always been good products but with a price to match the quality. Be interesting to see if German products can survive another 50 years, they survived the Jappanese onslaught from the late seventies onwards, but will they survive the current Asian onslaught, only time will tell