Originally Posted by Jipe

Once the parts are available (frame, fork, rear frame, components...) assembling the bikes is mainly done by hand and the amount of bikes assembled per day or week or month depend of the amount of people working on the assembly. Once the bikes are assembled, testing them is also manual work, testing more assembled bikes before shipping them, requires more people.

These people are different people than the one building the frames.

To speed up assembly, Peter must set up an assembly chain (search for video of the Brompton factory to see how it s done for a factory producing about 50K bike per year), does such a chain already exist ?