Confusing but true
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This vehicle building business is becoming so complicated.
It's bad enough for those of us who speak the language, but can you imagine an American selling a British truck to a Frenchman and trying to explain the specification?
"What is the engine,asks the Frenchman? "It's built by and so," replies the salesman, "And what about the gearbox?". -That's manufactured by you know who."
-And the back axle?" asks the customer. "It comes from what's 'is name.
"And isn't the cab built by Mr. Thing," came the next query. -That's right," said our salesman friend. "But surely," said the customer, -it's not your vehicle. One person makes the engine, another the gearbox, a third the back axle, and the cab is made by someone else. What do you make?"
"The profit," said the manufacturer. And that, my friends, is the name of the game.