LIMITED SALE FOR CARS
RESTRICTIONS PLACED Orf BRITAIN
(Special Correspondent N ZJ’JI.) (Rec. 9 pjn.) . LONDON, July 28. Only Switzerland and Portugal in the European hard currency area are now admitting British cars without restriction. France, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, China, Syria, India, and Argentina have all recently imposed a complete embargo on British car imports, and Sweden, Brazil, Norway, Belgium and Peru have imposed severe restrictions. One result of the increasing constrictipn of toe market has been that the Nuffield organisation this month switched £1,999,009 worth of cars intended for European and South American countries to Australia, South Africa. New Zealand, and other Commonwealth markets.
A spokesman for the manufacturer* said: “It is up to the Government to state a policy. We cannot export cars to countries who cannot pay tor them.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 7
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