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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 549, 30 December 1949, Page 4

"They make Buses like frocks I was amazed" Mrs. Smith travelled in a of the bus chassis, the bus every time she went panels fitted to the amaz- to the city but hadn t ingly strong all-steel given a moment' S thought framework the seats to how that bus was and inside accessories made until one day, she fitted, then from the and her husband went paintshop comes a beau- through the Petone plant tiful new bus, ready for of the New Zealand the road: Motor Bodies Ltd_ In the three assembly The first thing that at- plants of New Zealand tracted and amazed Mrs: Motor Bodies Ltd. (Petone , Smith was, that,they used Auckland, and Christ- patterns to cut out the church) nearly 300 men steel frames and panels, work involving around just like Mrs. Smith uses 12 different trades: They a pattern to cut out her are proud of their work, frocks, and she laughed knowing that every bus when: she heard buses had they turn out is the waists and skirts. strongest and safest type As Mrs. Smith went from that can be made department to depart; Look for the New Zealand ment, she saw the steel Motor Bodies Ltd; trade- cut and bent and pressed mark, usually above the into a hundred and one head of the driver or over pieces:: She saw these the door. If it's there , sit pieces placed into posi- back and relax, knowing tion on jigs and welded you are travelling in the together, then the com most comfortable, safest pleted sides, top, and bus on New Zealand ends built on to the frame roads.