CANADIAN CARS
STOP-AND-GO PRODUCTION FAILED TO REACH GOAL A New York journal states that, as a result of shop-and-go production, the Canadian automobile industry failed to reach its 1946 production goal. Output was held up for the same causes that impeded United States motor car production; but the year ended oh an optimistic note, with demand believed equal to at least two years' capacity production and an abnormally good market in prospect up to 1950.
Output in 1946 amounted to about 100,000 passenger cars and 78.000 commercial cars, in contrast with production of 153,000 passenger and 54,000 commercial vehicles in 1937.
Should the industry be able to operate at capacity this year 1947 output could total about 300,000 passenger cars and 100,000 commercial cars.
With steel and other shortages in mind, conservative trade circles doubt that the 1947 . output will reach the potential 400,000 total car production. The foreign market takes more than one out of every three cars made in Canada.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 93, 12 February 1947, Page 6
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