"STEPPING ON IT."
BRITAIN'S MOTOR SPEED-UP.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, October 18.
The steady rise in the value of motor car exports from Britain since the end of the war was - referred to by the Parliamentary Secretary for Overseas Trade, Captain D. H. Hacking, in a speech at Birmingham. Ho said the makers of one type of cars had manufactured 300 vehicles in 1920 and in the following year their output was ten times greater. Last < year the number of vehicles manufactured by the same firm totalled 27,000. British factories produced an aggregate of 209,000 cars last year, compared with 88,000 four years earlier. British exports of motor cars represented a value of about £3,900,000 in 1923. They had risen by last year to a value of more than £10.500,000.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 248, 19 October 1928, Page 7
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