My husband's best friend has a shelf filled with 60's Canadian Tonka trucks. The best running old Dodge van we used on the farm was built in canada. Perhaps he can go live there after the 2012 election. But that too has alot to do with free trade with our neighbors. I suspect the Daimlerchrystler corp. and canadian workers are happy about that.
Just to add a few facts.
Via New York Post:
. . .The feds bought the two coaches for $2.2 million from Hemphill Brothers Coach, based in Tennessee. It installed custom interior upgrades into the Prevost shell, which accounted for about half the cost. The contract lists the country of origin as Canada and place of manufacture as “outside U.S. – Trade Agreements,” a possible reference to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Hemphill wouldn’t comment on the bus. But an ad on its Web site for a similar bus costing $100,000 less than what has been dubbed “Greyhound One” boasts: “This coach is appointed with the finest materials and the latest in high tech electronics and was built for a top entertainer to travel efficiently without losing the luxuries of home. . .
More It's not half as bad as we are asked to believe. Closer to one quarter or less.
New Prevost coaches are delivered to the Hemphill Tennessee conversion shop with nothing more than a plywood floor and a driver's seat, according to information posted on a company site. This agrees with what
ABC Newslearned from Christine Garant of Prevost, "We just make the shell. We don't know anything about the end user." Prevost's Steve Zeigler agreed, telling ABC News, "We just build an empty shell of a bus, and then sell them to a converter for outfitting,"
American craftspeople in Tennessee custom-build every wall, cabinet and piece of furniture in a Hemphill coach. Adjacent to and upstairs from the main conversion shop, there is a complete woodfinishing and upholstery shop. Speculation is that even the engines in the two presidential buses are American made — possibly by Detroit Diesel. This is still to be confirmed but seems likely as
Provost supplies mainly empty shells. Read more:
http://digitaljournal.com/article/310462#ixzz1VLOmYgbL