YET ANOTHER AUSTIN RECORD
2 329 VEHICLES IN ONE WEEK
The production of Austin cars achieved a new record in the week ending July 10, 2,329 vehicles rolling off the assembly lines of the great Longbridge Factory. This is the highest number of Austin vehicles to come off in any week since the war and represents the greatest single post-war week's production of cars and commercial vehicles of any firm in the British Motor Industry. By the end of the present week upwards of 30,000 of the new Austin A.4o's will have been produced and of this total fewer than 1,000 have gone into the home market whilemore than 11,000 have been shipped to North America for dollars.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14788, 29 September 1948, Page 4
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118YET ANOTHER AUSTIN RECORD Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14788, 29 September 1948, Page 4
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