MOTOR INDUSTRY.
EXPANSION IN BRITAIN. RUGBY, Oct. 17. The steady post-war rise in the value of British motor-cars exported was referred to in a speech by the Minister for Overseas Trade, Captain D. H. Hacking. , . Captain Hacking dealt with the rapid expansion of the motor industry. He stated that the makers of one particular type of car turned out 800 vehicles in 1920. In the following vear the output was ten times greater, and last year the number manufactured by the firm in question totalled 27,000. British: factories turned out in the aggregate 209,000 cars last year, compared with 88,000 four years earlier The British exports of motor-cars, which represented a value of about £3,900,000 in 1923, had mounted by last year to the value of over £10,500,000.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3860, 20 October 1928, Page 1
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128MOTOR INDUSTRY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3860, 20 October 1928, Page 1
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