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It's not so much 'duplicating' or 'outsourcing', but more a bunch of more or less independant manufacturers getting together to produce a product under a common brand.
And we're talking 1950s here,...

If I may add, it's not quite as simple as that.
In Solingen of past, many of the manufacturers were very small, sometimes just one person grinding in his shed. Some of these smaller ones had...