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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1948.
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MORRIS Eight Ten MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS U.S. STYLES
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petrol. models rannufactured less car own- 42 in the next 12 months. Half ers in Britain of these will be of the "special- Badly bring | ist", high-price type so the plan tut jacka or really means that 90 per cent Гог their of British production next year just pile up bricks faithful long-suffering cars to will be concentrated on 21 mo-
during hibernation, dels.
136 in 1939.) they may perhaps ask them- selves a serious new question.
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If the Cripps export targets for Britain's automobile indes. try are achieved, will it mean that the present trickle of new cars and suppliek to the home market virtually will be turn. el of altogether.
For whether or no British nwners all realize it yet, that is one of the big questions to be resolved in a series of new falks between the Minister of Supply and leading auto manu- facturers.
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More Notes on the Postwar World: Down in Sydney there
During 1946, when the Ame- erican motor industry wns at
standstill on account of strikes, the demand for import- ed British cars proved unusita' ly brisk. Over 1,000 cars were exported, compared with 45 sent in 1988. The cars selling the were mostly Standard and Austin alcons.
The information now is that with the gathering speed of U.S. car production the demand for foreign cars has not leasened but has changed. There seems to be a marked demand for the British sports cara demand unlikely to be challenged by the. American manufacturers, who are not interested in making]
such a car.
In March, Sir Miles Thomas
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are two men who can't get garages revealed that for his American for their cars. One :wns a Rolls- exports he intended to concen- Rayce, the other a Ford. They trate on the 1. Keling Ex- park them in the street at night,į ports are how implementing chained together, bumper to bum- that policy. In Angust, Dona di ECONOMICAL REPAIRS by: Harrison, sales promotion man-qualified automobile engineers.
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While negotiations about the extent of this change proceed, another and even more serious question will have to be re- solved. How much extra atcel
Major will the auto trade be allocated
In North Sydney, another mo- automobile under the new plan announced manufacturers are scattering their torist parks his car in the street.ger, took two MGs and a 1 ley
to Canada recently by the Minister of operations slowly to strategic night a steel cable runs from his States for a three-month cam
and the United He lives in an upstair fat. Al areas, It is part of the ckeying bedroom, down over the awning, palgn. Supply. Mr. John Wilmot?
for position against the time when through the freee, and connects It is hoped in the future to | DRIVING When Sir Stafford Cripps the market again becomes compeu.
tive.
with the steering wheel of his car market these makes in the Unit-lesson set the car industry export tar-
This decentralization of plants
ed States on a very much larger Instructors at moderate feca, get of £5,000,000 sterling worth employment and purchasing i Under a new Peruvian Cuspeale than before the war,
1948. and having a marked economic effect toma law, the Import of motor monthly by June, £6.400,000 by the end of that en scores of communities across vehicles (with the exception of!
In order to pravile space for Automaticnily act a the nation. Ostensibly the talks concern year he
Every state furnishes buses and light trucks) rationalization of the car in-numerical level of auto exports raw materials to the industry.
over expansion, Jowett Cars Lid. By relocating assembly plants hibited. This does not affect the Bradford, for £50,000. Jowett dustry to standardize produc- at 20.500 cars a month by June
and supply depots nearer to mar tion into a drastically fewer and 26.300 by the end of 1948.
kets, the cur makers seek to cut import of cars for which licencse Cars are to manufacture units number of models. The indus-
Production Target
costs by eliminating high freight have already been granted. at the Clayton works and take bills for long-haul shipment from
them to their main factory at Changed
the Detroit and midwest areas.
Idle for assembly. More than 1.000 part com- panies and 200 too) and dię firms Auto manu-
in some 250 cities and towns in 30 facturers ree-states supply auto plants directly. koned that Under the decentralization pro they
would gramme, the suppliers will ship a have to sup- large amount of their parts to new ply 100,000 autos per annum plants and depots nearest them. to the British market to keep
try has been urged by the Gov- ernment to adopt a policy of one model per firm or factory.
The trade's answer is that such a drastic plan would pro- duce chaotic results and lf up- plied suddenly would lead to an immediate and serious loss of mroduction.
Gradual Reduction
Instead it is proposed with the carry on own scheme which gradually is I to reduce the number of basic
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Disappointment is being felt
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of
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The final report of the Com-) £1 n wheel on cars and lorries mittee on Road Safety, estab to raise funds for rond repairs. Ished up in 1942, seta out more At the moment only £275 has than
principal recom- been realised. Reminders are bemendations. These include ra- ing sent to non-payers, but no gulations for the behaviour of prosecution will follow If they pedestrians and pedal cyclists don't pay.
and for the periodical inspre- tion of motor vehicles.
Car production in the British to zone of Germany amounted
cent 1.804 cars in July-10 per more than in June and the highest monthly production yet achieved this year. The output the British zone was 1.025 cars of the "Volkswagen" factory in
for July.
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completing huge programme of expansion, including new zonal warehouses, supply and manufac- Here's the rub. The addi-turing plants, tional total output of such rein about 21.4 per cent of the The Ford Motor Co., now make Intive size would need much nation's motor vehicles, also has extra steel. But the Supply expanded its operations to new Minister issued his statemont areas in a drive to regain top posi- the day before the auto indus- tion in its field, now hold by GM's The type 321 BMW motor car, try was due to lay its ration-Chevrolet division,
which is now being manufactur- Chrysler Corporation, Ingging ed in the Russian zone of Ger- alization plan before the Gov-
less than two per cent behind; crnment and that statement Ford's over-all output, centers all many, is being exported to pro. made a categorical declaration is manufacturing operations induce dollars, Immediately de. that there couldn't be "any Detroit, and its auto-making is the livery is offered by a Belgian rubatantial increase in supplies feust scattered of the "Big Three" dealer, who quotes a price of
companies. It has a parts plant about 150,000 Belgian francs. of steel."
Mr. Wilmot declared that ex- at Kansas City and one parts and ports to Britain's 121 foreign two assembly plants in the Los
A skittle alley, with skittles Angeles area. markets must be a first charge
made of toughened safely gloda Instead of wood, was a feature on output which couldn't be fed with much
of the annual sports of the more steel would mean little The "Big Three" companies Triplex Social and Athletic As left
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home
users, make nearly 70 per cent of all the sociation at King'a Norton, Euch firm would have a small cars and trucks produced in
the Birmingham. United States and they have large home sales quota, but directly operations in Canada and other related to its export perform countries.
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A rumour that cargoes of Bri. ttah
South arriving in Such well-known companies as Studebaker, Hudson, Willys, Nash, Africa have been turned back na 4,000 For Home Use Packard and the newcomer, Kal- unwanted is unfounded, accord- ser-Frazer Corporation, account tag to the result of enquiries If
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tional supplies The Automoblie Manufacturers A pensions and life assur- of steel the auto in-Association points out that the ance acheme for ita factory,:
its auto industry is one of the nation's sales and staff personnel has iustry cannot make
important. 38,000 month.
Its statistics been established by the Cham- The best most month to date has been just bew that more than 500,000 pion Sparking Plug Co., Ltd.
business arms, employing 8,200,- low 30,000. It is doubtful 000 persons, center around the whether the average output can manufacture, sale, service and use be pushed higher than that as cf motor vehicles. things look now.
Ford
At that rale it doesn't take a mathematical wizard to reckon that with a compulsory has been steking new vendors on Since the rst of the year, Ford "export or exit" target of 26th west const to suply its Call- 300 in force, the total amount fornia plants locally with a wide of new auton left to be distri- variety of parts, including bulky ibuted around at home ench items such as wheels and gasoline month can't be much more than tanks. Ford plans to increase its West Coast purchases from $15,- 4,000-if that.
And that at a time when000,000 annually to $05,000,000.
All the steps by the car makers manufacturers calculato that are aimed to the coming compet there are at least 480,000 es- tive market when dealers aro sential usurs needing me forced to get their profits Στυπι diate replacement. or this their regular 26 por cent discount total more than one third com-after absorbing losses on trad prises Government departments, riding high on the seller's market At present, the dealers arg police, public utility undertak- and profits are no problem- ings, and large fleet usors.
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