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frames and training the Polarizer U.K. staff in quality control
procedures.
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.
Mr. Davis testified that the factory in which he worked was
a "manufacturing unit" and that he was classified as a "manu-
facturing manager". He also referred to the work of Polarizer
U.K. as "production" and indicated that customer returns were due
to "production problems". Thus, it appears that Polaroid U.K.
generally considered the assembly operations conducted by
Polarizer U.K., which were very similar to the sunglass assembly
operations conducted by B&L Ireland and by B&L Hong Kong, to
constitute the manufacture of sunglasses.
In addition, although we assume that most, if not all, of
B&L's current and former employees who testified in these cases
were prepared by counsel before trial, and we recognize that
their testimony served B&L's interests, we note that those wit-
nesses generally referred to the assembly operations of B&L
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