HALT IN MANUFACTURE
CARS AND LIGHT TRUCKS IN U.S.A. WAR PRODUCTION BOARD ORDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 21. Mr Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, has ordered the production of passenger automobiles and light trucks, either for civilian, military or export purposes, to be stopped on February 1, regardless of existing contracts. He said that' all military demands that could be forseen would bC| satisfied from stock piles of new cars which the Government had recently ordered to be held in dealers’ storage until next year, plus the January production. The industry’s passenger car quota for January was 20,484 units and the light truck quota was 24,169 units. At the same time automobile sales had been halted. It was estimated that dealers had about 450,000 new passen-' ger automobiles and about 38,000 light trucks in hand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 4
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