#58 Jenkins: World Renown. At >900 sold and now back in production, Twotter is estimable. I am voluble in criticism of UK Aero's lethargy in seeking out oddbod buyers in the boondocks...but Short's sheds were an exception. 149 Skyvan, 141 SD330, 165 SD360 not shabby. None sold to UK Govt., some sold with UK Aid, most sold by going out there and scavenging.
To 1989 UK Govt. owned Shorts and accepted accountant's assessments of "loss" as being acceptable in the interests of a United Kingdom with distinct issues in N.Ireland. DHC was a Canadian Crown Corporation off-and-on, 1943-1992: so neither Twotter not sheds stood on own feet as products dependent on nimble customers. From 1992, Bombardier (a Quebec specialist vehicles business) owned both Shorts and DHC, and chose to Improve the Regional Aircraft line at DHC, and to do other things at Shorts.
I observed Shorts 1984 sale of 8 360 to China: some were placed in Wuhan, then a backwater. The deal was done by ex-Britten Norman Islander marketeer David Dixon, who understood Product Support to an extent then abnormal for Brit aeronauts. He caused his employer to be seen to care.
You are of course right....that if more UK folk had shown more care...this was the sole simple reason for Fokker selling 786 F-27 in terrain where others feared to tread.