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I believe there was some sort of (family?!) dispute within Dahon which caused the split, I'll try to confirm circumstances with colleagues tomorrow (if anyone really cares). Tern was born from the split.
Replacement (proprietary) parts are still hard to get hold of for Dahon, though Evans stocks some (forks etc) and there is some crossover with these parts and Tern. Dahonspares.co.uk is a source we usually recommend and we have a contact within Tern(& dahon) who we can go to for more problematic issues.
I know warranty frames within Dahon took AGES as they used to have to build them from scratch because they didn't stock surplus, and the build process itself was pretty intensive.
Terns do certainly seem to be an improvement upon the Dahon brand.