INTERESTING DISPLAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 970, 13 May 1930, Page 6

INTERESTING DISPLAY

AT NEW CHEVROLET AGENTS An interesting display of the materials which go into the making of a New Zealand-built Chevrolet is at present on exhibition at T. and T. Motors, Wellesley Street East, new Chevrolet agents. The exhibition includes samples of the various New Zealand wools and woollen materials which make up the upholstery, also woodwork, and so on, culminating in one of the latest Chevrolet cars, in the distinguished setting of a large gilt frame. The most interesting exhibit is a model illustrating the lay-out of the enormous assembly plant of General Motors at Petoue, near Wellington. The model covers about 35 square feet, is about nine inches high, and depicts the entire factory with the roof removed. Every stage of the assembly and body-building operation is shown in marvellous little models of cars and partly-built cars, and the whole affair is particularly interesting to those who have not been fortunate enough to see the plant at Petone. The exhibition is in the garage at T. and T. Motors and is open free to the public. U.S. EXPORTS AUSTRALIA BUYS LESS The total number of motor vehicles exported from the United States in January of this year amounted to 28,169 cars and trucks. This is a gain of 3,430 vehicles or 13.9 per cent, on the December, 1928, exports, but it is greatly below those for January, 1928, when 37,665 cars and trucks were shipped. While the export of American trucks is still at a high level, the number of cars shipped has fallen off considerably. Car shipments during last January, as compared with the same month last year, showed a decrease of 9,338 or 37.3 per cent. A total of 12.876 trucks was exported in January, 1930, a gain of nearly 2,000 above the December shipments. Among the various leading passenger car export markets Belgium occupied first place last January, with a slight lead over Argentina. Australia dropped from first place in December, 1929, to fifth in January. Belgium was also the principal buyer of American trucks for that month with 2,048. Argentina was second in this list with 1,720, replacing Australia, which with 1,292 dropped to fourth position. There was a marked increase, in thq number of American trucks bought by the United Kingdom, which absorbed 1,655 last January, as compared with only 342 during the previous month.