After vehicle production finished, the company remained trading as a component maker until 1987.

Professional cycling had been dominated by an Italian component maker, Campagnolo.

Q. What about the components makers?

Nissan and its affiliated component makers will form a committee to study ways of increasing the use of United States semiconductors, a spokesman said.

Although there are few accredited master ship builders, there are a vast number of component makers that can work from specifications.

However, the collapse of telecommunications companies and corporate spending has halted the building boom of such networks and scaled back expectations for components makers.

Chrome OS is maturing and gaining the support of prominent component makers and device vendors.

The logical candidates are the component makers, such as Delphi and Visteon, that are not doing that well financial-ly.

Nortel said recently that it was shutting the operations of CoreTek, an optical components maker that it bought for $1.3 billion in 2000.

Aircraft builders, component makers, airlines, leasing companies and maintenance contractors have all sent statements of concern, though none are known to have lodged a formal complaint.