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@dlearl476 posted:

I noticed a 356 Registry badge on germancarbadge.com for $149 the other day.

What in the world?  That's like a 4x mark up.  You can infer that the other items are similarly marked up.  But I guess there's a price for their antique collector curation effort.

Re Ford and the Robertson screw, Wikipedia says:

"When Henry Ford tried out the Robertson screws, he found that they saved considerable time in Model T production, but when Robertson refused to license the screw design, Ford realized that the supply of screws would not be guaranteed and chose to limit their use in production to Ford's Canadian division."

I guess this isn't totally contradictory with the R&T article, but you come away with different understandings if you just read one or the other.  There are always different slants/spins of history.  Either way, it sounds like it's we who ultimately "got screwed" 😜

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