The Hornby Sanda Kan production facility may be in China however the owners are American.
Don't know about Kadar (Bachmann). They seem to have Chinese connections and are a bit more secretive from an ownership point of view.
Lets think about this.
It requires about 5 times the amount of labour by time to put a current superdetailed Hornby model together than it did to produce a Flying Scotsman of the 1970's complete with moulded handrails.
Now if current versions of A3's were produced in the UK what would the RRP be?
Higher or lower than £150?
And would the quality threshold be higher or lower or the same?
And if the A3 was £150 with a "Made in Britain" moulded on the bottom would we buy?
Do we value "Made in Britain" any more?
Dapol promote this fact heavily.
Happy modelling
Gary