A Russian Lewyt??!

[electrolux137]

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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">W T H  ??!</span>



http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-USS...-1950-s-LEWYT-model-44-working-/252419067067?

 

[electrolux137]

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Stranger yet ... I did some Googling for the <span class="st">Uralec </span>vacuum cleaner and found countless videos - ALL OVER THE PLACE - of it just sitting there running! The longest video? TEN HOURS!! (They're all the same video, just excerpts of different running times.)



http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuyHSLEw3WU

 

[eurekaprince]

What's that expression? "Imitation is the strongest form of flattery." Or something like that....da?

 

[vacerator]

The former USSR

either purchased licensing to produce western products, or copied them.
The Moskvitch car was an early 60's Opel Kadette, the Lada sedan a Fiat 128, and supposedly the Zil Chaika only looked like a 1955 Packard 400. The 1964 Zil like a Cadillac, then the 1967 front grille treatment like a Lincoln Mercury.
Henry Ford sold them dies, presses, and helped build the post war ZIL factory in Moscow.
So what gives? Macarthyism? Too bad they didn't produce houses, furniture, more cars, appliances, and pay people enough to buy them. Then their failed communist experiment just may have worked.
Then they would have had a middle class like the USA. Not empty store displays and shelves. Taken over farms became collectives. Where'd all the cattle go?
I always wondered if at least their farmers ate well.
They had to buy wheat from us in the 70's. the writing was already on the wall then. It just took Polish Solidarity, and Lec Walecza to bring the Berlin wall down.

 

[vacerator]

What nation today

builds western designs, or copies them?

 

[mchmike]

China and Korea.

 

[vacerator]

Yes, correct,

but mostly China. Jeeps, then Buicks, Volkswagens, Audis, then copycat BMW, Mercedes, and other clones which have nothing in common beneath their sheet metal.
Korea adopted Mitsubishi engines and designs for Hyundai cars from Japan, then spun off it's Kia division with help from Ford importing the Aspire sub compact here.
The LG major appliances sold here are US designs for North America and assembled in Mexico, at least ranges are for certain. Same with Samsung.
The Samsung cars were also Mitsubishi derivatives, but one flagship model I do believe was designed with help from Mercedes Benz.
The US still has a major military presence in N. Korea. Hyundai/Kia has and engine plant with Chrysler in Dundee Michigan, and an assembly plant in Georgia.
I do not think American companies are allowed to buy Chinese companies. Not yet, if ever. Not so long as any Totalitarian government rules China. No doubt China collects dowery's for allowing US companies to make goods there and export them here.