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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1938, Page 4

Magnificent Hew Motor Premises For FAGAN MOTORS Masterton

MODERN BUILDING COPES WITH INCREASE OF BUSINESS

JT is a far cry from the early days of motoring in the Wairarapa, when ears and the roads on which they travelled were indeed elementary judged by today’s standards. With narrow high-crowned roads, often deeply rutted and a mass of potholes, with layers of dust in the summer and inches deep in mud in the winter, motoring in the early nineteen twenties, arid before that, was frequently more of an ordeal than a pleasure. What a vast difference, too, between the high-built ears of those days, with their stiff little springs, hard-riding high-pressure tyres, and their draughty side curtains, as compared with the sleek, luxurious ears of today, with passengers riding in sumptuous comfort, completely protected from lhe weather and the dust.

A monument to the spectacular development in motoring is provided in Masterton by the magnificent new premises recently completed for Fagan Motors, Ltd. This progressive firm has for a number of years capably represented in Masterton and large section of the Wairarapa district the interests of-sbne of the largest motor organisations in the world, the Ford Motor Company. For many years the ever-popular Ford products were sold and serviced in a comparatively small garage, situated in South Queen Street. At that time the staff was a very small one, comprising no more than half-a-dozen hard working people, for then, as now, a very high percentage of cars anti motor trucks on the road were Fords. COPING WITH INCREASED BUSINESS. In 1931 the present head of the firm, Mr P. Fagan, became manager of the Masterton Ford Dealership, and had under his control a staff of seven. Before long it had become imperative to find new and much large premises in order to cope with the greatly increased business resulting from the growth and advancement of Masterton and the Wairarapa, and the great improvement in motor transportation.