Cheap Car To Be Produced By An Australian Firm
Plans to produce a light Australian car costing £3OO plus sales tax and doing 60 miles to a gallon were submitted to the Prime Minister, Mr J. B. Chifley, by Mr L. J. Hartnett, former managing director of General Motors Holdens* Ltd. A company with a capital of £1,000,000 would be. formed, he said, and would produce 5000 cars in the first year, and 10,000 in each successive year. Mr Hartnett added that he hoped the car would be in production by the end of the year or early next year.
The car would weigh only 980 pounds of which 3151 b would be aluminium, and would be an 8J horsepower sedan, seating four people. It was designed by J. A. Gregoire, a noted French automotive engineer, and had been tested over 350,000 miles in India, Morocco, America and England. The car has not keen commercially produced in any other country.
The company would employ 1250 people in the first year, and its factory would be situated in Victoria or near Sydney.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 55, 21 February 1949, Page 5
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