Another interesting aspect of Ithaca according to Snyder is its policy of producing inventory of new models before public introduction. No failures to meet demand. Also can't help noticing that the expedient hodgepodge "facility" at Ithaca could be indicative of an entrenched gun-making capability and no-nonsense pragmatism about striking while the iron is hot to borrow the smithy metaphor. It must have been a genuine "skunkworks". By comparison, Fox's Philly operation has that "all paint and no engine" look of a transplanted boutique.
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