Conventional Cars "Out"
QTEEL springs, back-end differentials and driveshafts that run the entire length of the vehicle are still very much “in” for most of the world’s cars, but they’re very much on the way out at Austin Distributors Federation’s Petone assembly plant, where the last conventional-layout cars will soon leave the factory. In the wake of many years’ assembly work on orthodox
models has come the growing fleet of modern B.M.C. cars with transverse engines, front-wheel-drive and wateralcohol suspension. Soon the federation’s total car-assembly operation will comprise the new vehicles, and the only evidence of orthodox construction will be seen on the truck-assembly line on which has just started the first New Zealand assembly run of the cross-country Austin Gipsy.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 12
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121Conventional Cars "Out" Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31088, 17 June 1966, Page 12
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