MOTOR CAR COMPETITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 9

MOTOR CAR COMPETITION.

-I "BIG AMERICAN EFFORT. ™s~Telefraph. Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. '-an American company controlling tne tt of a large group of motor ears and lor ries in New Zealand has completed ?'SHB for a revolutionary change in its porting and selling methods. There ™* been a heavy reduction in the price of motors this season, but when the new operates it is expected to cause 'artier savings, so substantial that competition against the English cars in New jWand, now- increasing in demand, will "Mome more severe. lie American motor combination has !? s "« r its distribution system, but its *'?gest move is designed to avoid the ieavy freight on assembled car*, which «« charged on measurement. The component parts are to be packed into lots and flight to New- Zealand for assembly, SNr&ore than half the expense on *«?bt can be saved. . This also enables a substantial redne- : TOon the Customs duty to be obtained. 1 is estimated the saving in freight and a % amounts to £30 per car. giving an Wastage of £20 tinder these beads ?* the English car imported ready for ">* road. Tbe American company has acquired n ar *a in i'erone. where a large asW»to factory will be erected in ample "08 'or next season's business.