It's new tooling and all the costs of new vehicles.
The 1950 event saw a greater number of new products, although many manufacturers still had not invested in new tooling.
As the promotional model business tapered off in the 1970s, it became financially difficult for Jo-Han to develop new tooling.
How much new tooling would I have to put in to change over?
Japanese manufacturers, in particular, developed ways to make several models on the same assembly line, keeping their investment in new tooling to a minimum.
Since the airplane was out of production this would require new tooling to produce.
Within hours of the order Betts had commissioned new tooling to adapt a production line.
"They are about to start their new 777 aircraft program, which is a $4.5 billion to $5 billion program, with complete new tooling and design."
Seeing, however, that the factory had no trouble selling every motorcycle built, it was decided not to make any major investments in new tooling.
Wentworth production can now focus on the quality of manufacture and design innovation that this new tooling provides.