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<p>Dean:<br>
Thanks for straightening me out. Back when we bought our 21ft
Airstream from a former dealer, the owner told us that Thor
corporation had bought Airstream from Beatrice Foods. I
questioned him at the time about that being the air tool company
and he said it was... Thor Pneumatic tools was bought out by
Stewart-Warner... <br>
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<p> Granted Airstream has had a lot of problems with their trailers
since the mid 90's. Frame problems especially. The older
models were well built, but their problem was leaking around the
windows and the riveted seams in the shell.. The leakage would
rot the plywood floor and the floor supported the shell. To
replace the floor the shell needs to be lifted from the frame and
there is an aluminum angle that sets on the floor and attaches
the shell. Replacement of our 21ft floor would take at least 100
man hours... It is now too good to scrap, and too bad to really
use like we want to...</p>
<p>Cecil<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Cecil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Interesting
observations. That I have no argument with but one comment
woke me up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">“ Airstream
trailers was bought by Beatrice foods, then sold to Thor
Corporation. “”” manufacturer of air tools””” As far as
I know Thor Corporation that bought Airstream is the largest
RV Manufacturer in the US with a large variety of brands.
I’m not aware of them being into air tools. Did I miss
something? BTW, in line with your discussion…. Airstream
had a pretty good reputation for quality, however since the
Thor manufacturing policies have been instituted the
Airstream Quality has steadily declined noticeably. Thor’s
primary focus is to strip the costs out of the RV, focus on
producing more units faster at less cost and selling sizzle
rather than substance. Thor’s stock has steadily declined
and IMHO the Thor management is trying to squeeze every dime
out of the multiple brands before abandoning them and
sailing off in the sunset with their ill-gotten gains. Just
look into Markus Lemonis and what he and his minions are
really doing at Thor. It is sickening. The RV industry has
a poor reputation for quality products. Markus is driving
that quality reputation to new lows. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com"><at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com></a> <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Cecil Bearden<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 26, 2019 11:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:at@lists.antique-tractor.com">at@lists.antique-tractor.com</a><br>
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<p>That town is no different that every other factory town that
lost the main workplace when the manufacturer went offshore,
or just went belly up. Massey went bankrupt due to some bad
management decisions and changes in Farming. Allis Chalmers
died due to the Germans buying them out and changing the
engine design. White motor Co. bought Oliver and Minneapolis
Moline and just drained the companies of everything. Then
AGCO bought them and only kept the planter. The later 2-105
White tractors were a later version of the 1850 Series
Oliver. One of the Best tractors made IMO. I remember when
the first Russian wheat deal was signed and wheat went to $6 a
bushel. One Week later John Deere raised prices 20% across
the board.... I can't testify to International. IH had some
problems in the 80's. I remember buying some IH stock for $6
a share in the 80's. This was when Tenneco was working on
buying International Harvester Ag. Tenneco was first a gas
transmission company... I blame many problems in
manufacturing on the big companies in the 70's thru the 90's
playing the merger acquisition game. When a company is
publicly traded and their assets are worth more than their
stock, they are in a bad position for some greedy entity to
buy their stock and dismantle the company for a fast buck.
Airstream trailers was bought by Beatrice foods, then sold to
Thor corporation, the manufacturers of air tools. Many of
these acquisitions just did not make sense and then the
companies flounder for several years before going out of
business or going offshore.... <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Then when you have too many people with no work and the
government pays so well for not working, then you have the
drug problem... I guess the old saying Idle hands are the
Devils workforce is so true....<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Just rambling.... Freezing drizzle for the next 36 hours
here, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Cecil<o:p></o:p></p>
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