Now before we start doing foreigner-bashing, perhaps we should think of this.
Britain has produced some of the best engineering in the world, and I don't just mean the Victorians. But we have also produced some of the worst. Just think back to British Leyland, for example. We got complacent and lazy and thought that the world owed us a living and would come running to our door.
My brother works for a luxury car maker. I can't remember whether it is RR or Jaguar or Bentley, or whether or not they are the same, they seem to keep buying each other out. He's worked for all of them, I think. But he goes all over the world and right now they are seeing about getting some parts made in India, where costs are very much lower and the quality is "as good as anything anywhere else in the world".
There is good and bad in all industries.
I agree that I can't understand how these Verniers would work, though!
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