CARAVAN FIRM SHUTS DOWN
The biggest manufacturer of caravans in New Zealand, the Starline Caravan Company, Ltd., of Kingsley street, Christchurch, shut down manufacturing about a week ago. More than 30 workers were dismissed.
An official of the company yesterday said that a receiver had been appointed. He said that, ironically, fibreglass, the substance on which the company had based its future, had caused the firm’s downfall. A major fire about two years ago involving fibreglass had destroyed all
the company’s caravan patterns and moulds.
In an attempt to re-establish after the fire the company had brought a pattern maker from England. This re-establish-ment programme had cost much more than expected. The company official said that Starline had manufactured some of the biggest caravans in New Zealand, including 21 footer tandem models.
It made the first fibreglass caravans in New Zealand and had been in business manufacturing caravans for about seven or eight years.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 12
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