t CHEVROLET (Xt & * \ * 1 Warranted for 12 months and dan be bought at easy terms on the G.M.A.C. Plan. V\/7TH more and more new Chevrolets apv v pearing on our highways people are beginning to ask—“ Why is this car named ‘Britannia/ what is the significance of ‘Britannia' ? " The New Chevrolet is produced at the Petohe Works of General Motors New Zealand Ltd. with Petone labour—it is a New Zealand made car for New Zealanders, and moreover oyer 68 °/o of the money expended by New Zealanders in the purchase of these cars remains to circulate within the Dominion. Thus General Motors desired to identify this New Chevrolet, not only with New Zealand and the Empire, but also with its very birthplace—they have given it a proud name, the name by which the Earliest Settlers knew Pesone, “Britannia." GENERAL MOTORS NEW ZEALAND LTD. Works: PETONE PRICES—HA WERA : TOURER £225. SEDAN £285. COACH £265. R H LEECF & CO Regent Street Hawera DISTRIBUTORS FOR CHEVROLET CARS AND TRUCKS
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 12
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166Page 12 Advertisements Column 1 Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 12
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