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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 166, 28 August 1942, Page 11

0) General Motors salutes the Machine Shops of New Zealand When the idea of Universal Bren biggest and most worth-while ever achieved by Gun Carriers in New was first General Motors in New Zealand. put forward there were many who said It can 't be done The task of planning their manufac Today this job is an accomplished fact a job ture and assembly was entrusted to General made possible only by the enthusiasm, the Motors New Zealand Limited an exclusive willing co-operation and sheer engineering abil- honour which was accepted not only as a tribute ity of men in machine shops throughout New to General Motors but also as an incentive to Zealand_ plan and work as never before. Today these' Universal Bren Gun Carriers are Hundreds of different major parts had to be playing their part in the defence scheme of the translated from blue -prints to metal. These Dominion. They have been tested and proved parts had to be made in a hundred and one in the field, and their drivers have signalled different engineering shops throughout the back Well done General Motors salutes the Dominion SO accurately that a part built machine shops everywhere, which were respon- at the North Cape would fit exactly with a part sible for this engineering success and are from the Bluff. A job of planning; of co-ordin- proud to be able to report It ation, of supply, and assembly which is the has been done in New Zealand: GENERAL MOTORS Work and Plan for Victory CHEVROLET VAUXHALL BEDFORD BUICK OLDSMOBILE PONTIAC G.M. DIESEL ALLISON AIRCRAFT ENGINES FRIGIDAIRE G.M: GENUINE PARTS A.C: SPARK PLUGS GM.7.30