More manufacturers fall over

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Will they be like the Phoenix and rise again like so many others after clearing the books.
 
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there is now so much competition in the market place, you wonder how they all survive. Unless they are mass producing and have constant turn over, I do not know how they balance the books. Very sad though.
 

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I couldn't afford to buy one from auction, maybe if they didn't overprice their products they might get a better turn over but I often wonder like other groups builders etc that they tend to line their own pockets before stabilising their company, the car is always the fully blinged Chev or something, the house is over the top with holiday houses and a basketball sponsorship, they tend to blow the money on the "Look at Me" stuff, before looking to see how they can pay the bills.....................then they get to walk away while others foot the bill.........
 
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Actually there was a few cheap shells and partially complete caravans on there. For someone of your handyman skills you could have built your own ultimate van fairly cheaply.

and if he played his cards right he could have built a couple and could have scored free camping up in the land of sunshine (with just a dash of rain)..............fella in town has a van built onto the back of an Isuzu medium rigid, a very tidy set up not at all like a Winnebaget..
 
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Talked a bit to a guy from New Age today at the show. He was positive about having the Walkinshaw HSV team working on the engineering. One task they had was to redesign the lifting mechanism for the Camper Trailer range that was canned a year or so ago due to problems with this mechanism. The HSV team did the redesign and the vans are now back in production. I got a good look at the winding mech and it is certainly not a copy of the Jayco design.
Apparently turning out these camper trailers at the rate of one per day. They are more expensive than the equivalent Jayco but seem to be less expensive than the Goldstream.
They are planning on eventually rationalising each model to three variants: basic, comfort, and adventurer.

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Talked a bit to a guy from New Age today at the show. He was positive about having the Walkinshaw HSV team working on the engineering. One task they had was to redesign the lifting mechanism for the Camper Trailer range that was canned a year or so ago due to problems with this mechanism. The HSV team did the redesign and the vans are now back in production. I got a good look at the winding mech and it is certainly not a copy of the Jayco design.
Apparently turning out these camper trailers at the rate of one per day. They are more expensive than the equivalent Jayco but seem to be less expensive than the Goldstream.
They are planning on eventually rationalising each model to three variants: basic, comfort, and adventurer.

cheers
Mike


So if thats the case the dealing has been going on for quite some time behind closed doors if design teams have been playing around, only a week or so back the liquidators administrator called in then shortly after Walkinshaw announce the buy..........................Poor reporting or something smells.
 
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So if thats the case the dealing has been going on for quite some time behind closed doors if design teams have been playing around, only a week or so back the liquidators called in then shortly after Walkinshaw announce the buy..........................Poor reporting or something smells.
My impression was that Walkinshaw has been a partner for some time and increased his interest to almost 100% last November. I understood that the original owner, Gabby Montagnese, still has a small interest.
I never heard anything about them going into liquidation. There is nothing about it on the Lemon Caravans & RVs in Aus FB site. They are #2 in the market. If they went under it would have made a very big splash and details would not be hard to find.

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My impression was that Walkinshaw has been a partner for some time and increased his interest to almost 100% last November. I understood that the original owner, Gabby Montagnese, still has a small interest.
I never heard anything about them going into liquidation. There is nothing about it on the Lemon Caravans & RVs in Aus FB site. They are #2 in the market. If they went under it would have made a very big splash and details would not be hard to find.

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Mike

That would be so , I suppose clear the deck for change of hands.

Here first post has a flyer for administrators sale which usually means it going to fall over https://www.expandasdownunder.com/threads/another-manufacturer-on-the-way-out.11713/#post-194589

Should have said administrator not liquidator in my earlier posts.
 
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Now I am confused. The post you refer to is in the thread about Kakoda being put into administration nothing I can read there about New Age. Or have I missed something?

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Now I am confused. The post you refer to is in the thread about Kakoda being put into administration nothing I can read there about New Age. Or have I missed something?

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Well you've passed the test @mikerezny you actually read whats posted................................. and you certainly don't have "oldtimers" like some..lol,lol,lol........confusion reigns supreme, I'll blame it on the Cyclone if you don't mind.................

So now that is cleared up............what you trying to say is I've lost the plot and New Age has changed hands and Kokoda might be going down the gurgler........

Cheers,

Whats my name ??
 
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