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FRENCH MAKER’S PLAN Just how deeply the idea of mass production has taken hold of the French car manufacturers may be judged by a recent report from the Department of Commerce. This is to the effect that manufacturers in France have got together, and are working on a plan to standardise parts. It has been decided to establish a “Bureau of Normalisation,” corresponding to the Bureau of Standards or the standardisation committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers, U.S.A. Anyone who has delved at all deeply into the French car industry will realise just how revolutionary this new idea is. Hitherto manufacturing in France has been carried on under conditions of the utmost secrecy; individual manufacturers have hidden their designs as far as possible; they have considered every process of manufacture as a “trade secret,” to be jealously guarded. If this new move indicates a growing spirit of cooperation among French manufacturers, it is going to give a tremendous impetus to the industry as a whole. In America the National Automobile Chamber of .Commerce has shown what can be done by cooperation, patent licensing, etc., but without any relaxing of healthful competition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 7
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194STANDARDISED PARTS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 7
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