CARS FOR N.Z.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18893, 7 January 1927, Page 4

CARS FOR N.Z.

SIZE OF ORDERS. MANUFACTURER'S VIEWS. (raox oob ows cobmspoxdest.) LONDON, November 27. Mr J. Lisle, managing director of the Star Engineering Co., sends a letter to the Trade and Engineering Supplement of "The Times" relative to British motor-car manufacturers who, according to the Dominion Premiers, "have got a long way to go yet." The writer says it has been very refreshing to -find in "The Times definite evidence that British cars are suitable for work abroad, and his company thinks that the Dominion Premiers would have been well advised to have gone into the matter more thoroughly before they ventured to broadcast the statement to the effect that "British motor-car manufacturers havo got a long way to go yet." The Keal Season. "There is one point (writes Mr Lisle) which is not touched upon in any of your articles, and as it is concerned with the real reason why cars are not going in sufficient numbers to Australia and New Zealand, we should like to make a few observations on itMany people wonder why we are not sending more cars when they are known to be all right for the conditions there, and the price is nob too high for quality work. The trouble is that although the traders of Australia and New Zealand are fully aware of these points, they are not prepared to pass firm orders for numbers sufficient to justify the expenditure of a large sum of money on the Colonial business. "For example, if a few traders from Australia and New Zealand were to come to us and say, 'We like your 14-li.p. model and with perhaps a few trifling alterations it will suit us very well, but we must ask you to try to get the price down a little lower,' we should at once_ express willingness to effect the modifications required and also to go into the question of price; but it would have to be perfectly clear that we could not entertain such business on the basis of half a dozen or a dozen cars, yet that is precisely what some of these traders appear to expect. "In the case of the American car, they have had to give 'viery large orders, nor are they permitted to deviate from the standard specification ; therefore it must be pretty clear that if the traders from the Dominions would only extend to us a tenth part of the confidence they appear to have in the manufacture of American cars, we and other British manufacturers would go right ahead in this business.

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