£2,000,000 PLANT

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 118, 5 December 1938, Page 3

£2,000,000 PLANT

MAKLX (J CAR E X GIN E S It may cost a manulacturor LU'.CCO or more to produce earn* porlect* motor of a> new design, yet wc»ri* he to ask that, much for it, lie* would he cut of business in no time. ’I he art of mou ern production is to design, one perfect model by research, experiment and testing, and then to reproduce ad inlinitiim a series cd replicas which are not less hut more perfect than the original. 'The process of reproduction is dome largely hy machinery, so elaborate and costly that the efficient- jmuiufacturcr must invest a staggering sum of money before he begins to offer ears for sale. The setting up and installing of machinery in the new Morris engines branch in England cost over £2,000,C00. The site extends over four acres and practically -all id this “town” is covered with a maze ol engineering equipment, all, how e \ 01. laid out scientifically, according to a pre-determined plan. ’This plant has a capacity of 4000 engines a week.