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Polaroid
From 1960 through the early 1980s, Sidney P. Davis (Mr.
Davis) was an employee of Polaroid U.K., which marketed and
distributed sunglasses in the United Kingdom. At the time he
joined Polaroid U.K., it sold sunglasses that were assembled for
it by Polarizer U.K., an unrelated company, from lenses that
Polaroid U.K. imported from the United States and from frames
purchased by Polaroid U.K. After joining Polaroid U.K., Mr.
Davis, acting as a representative of that company, became the
production manager of the assembly operations conducted by
Polarizer U.K. His work included improving the quality control
of the vendors supplying frames and training the Polarizer U.K.
staff in quality control procedures. In Mr. Davis' view, the
Polarizer U.K. factory in which he worked was a manufacturing
unit engaged in production, and he was a manufacturing manager.
The assembly operations conducted by Polaroid U.K. and
Polarizer U.K. throughout the period during which Mr. Davis was
production manager were very similar to the assembly operations
conducted by B&L Ireland and by B&L Hong Kong. Parts were pur-
chased, sorted, and inspected. The parts were assembled into
finished sunglasses with each operator responsible for quality
control. The finished sunglasses underwent a final inspection
before they were shipped.
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