AUSTRALIAN CARS
PRODUCTION NOT DELAYED (11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, April 15. A report that the shortage of skilled labour had delayed the production of General Motors Australian car for 18 months is denied by the manager of the company. Mr. H. E. Bettle. He said the company’s plans were unchanged. There would be a “pilot'’ production run of cars beginning in FOOD ORGANISATION CHIEF Ju ifJ° w to^L ng „ and eC!mu T nt Five test cars embodying variations WASHINGTON, April 14. of basic design have been undergoing The United States Under-Secretary tests for some months and have coverof Agriculture, Mr. Norris Dodd, today ed 60,000 miles. succeeded Sir John Boyd Orr as the All the details are secret, but it is director-general of the Food and Agri- believed that the car will be a2O horsecultural Organisation. power sedan selling at about £4OO.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22613, 16 April 1948, Page 5
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