BLEAK OUTLOOK FOR CARS
SHORTAGE IN AUSTRALIA Eeceived Tuesday, 8.50 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 14. The outlook this year for potential new car buyers with limited incomes is bleak, according to a survey of the motor trade. It is estimated that the Australian market could absorb 150,000 vehicles even at the current high prices. Worldwide labour troubles and shortages of materials are the main factors in the shortage of vehicles in Australia. Progress in 1946 was hot as great as anticipated because although a steady flow of new chassis arrived from Britain shipments from Canada and America fel-1 far short of expectations. Local strikes and bottlenecks held up supplics of Australianmade components and bodies to complete 13,000 imported chassis. in 1938-39 a total of 86,404 new automobiles was sold in the Commonwealth compared with 8964 in 1944-45 and 12,809 in 1945-46. The disposal of 78,000 army vehicles of all types and 19,800 motor cycles helped matters.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1947, Page 7
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