SHORTAGE OF CARS
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Agents Unable to Make Deliveries
(By TeJaerapb
HAMILTON, Last Night. Becanse he has not enough ears for showroom purposes, let alOne for ontside exhibition, one Hamilton motor dealer ha's had to cancel his space and exhibit in the motor section of the Waikato Winter Show. Such a aituation has been feared by several of the Hamilton dealers and is the direet result of the extremely slow delivery ot new cars. One agent declared that he has 80, signed ordera for new cars, bnt cannot supply the cars and accordingly he is losing eustomers, who are not prepared to wait some time before delivery. Other firms also claim that they can sell eara immediately thev are delivered and v cannot cope with mounting orders. The shipping strike along the west coast of America, the strikes in the largc producing factories in America, and the heavy armament programme started in Britain are said to be the eauses of shortage of new cars, both American and English modelg being afirected. A local factor is that asfembly plants in New Zealand have 1 i unable to meet the increase in the and.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4
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