ONE MOULD FOR MANY
In the House of Commons on February 7, Sir Joseph Leech asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he would "request his economic advisers to ascertain whether the diversity of styles, types, and. sizes of motor vehicles for private use creates an avoidable factor of national economic waste; and to report whether the amalgamation of motor manufacturing firms and the elimination of unnecessary variations of pattern, followed by expansion of the motor mass-produc-tion policy would strengthen our economic structure?"
Mr. Stanley, in reply, described this (the official report gives no hint of irony) as "a highly technical question,'' states "The Motor," which proceeds: "Sir Joseph. Leech will possibly next turn his attention to such things as hats, and inquire if the national economic structure would not be strengthened if all hats, including women's, were turned out from the same mould. The only serious drawback to such a scheme would seem to be that people are not at present all exactly the same. Think of the 'economic waste' of that."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1939, Page 30
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175ONE MOULD FOR MANY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1939, Page 30
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