Yng, I know, but you've got me really curious as to what the situation is now. While I know for a fact that what I have been saying WAS true when all the U.S., Brittish, German etc...original manufacturers were still in production, the truth today may be somewhere closer to your theory. I am going to find out though.
I swamped with work right now but in the next few weeks I am going to research this.