BRITISH MOTOR BOOM

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 June 1935, Page 9

BRITISH MOTOR BOOM

FACTORIES AT FULL PRESSURE MEN EARNING TOP WAGES HEAVY OVERSEAS CONSIGNMENTS (Our Own Correspondent—By Air Mail) LONDON, May 8. Motor-ear manufacturers in the United Kingdom are working at full pressure and some are linding it necessary to extend their works, notably the Austin Motor; Company, which, at a cost of £50,000, is adding to its factory at Longbridge, Birmingham, and the Rover Company, which is enlarging its plant at Coventry. There is not a motor-car factory in which short time is being worked. Men are earning top wages. Vauxhall Motors Ltd., Luton, is sharing its prosperity with its SOOO employees by initiating a profit-sharing scheme. Lord Nuffield, just back from Australia and New Zealand, presiding at the annual meeting of Morris Motors Ltd., stated that the export sales of Morris cars had increased by 40 per pent, during ttie year. Lord Nuffield announced that there are to be two new Morris cars—a 10 and 12 h.p. Other companies report prosperity and progress as follows: Standard Motor Co., Coventry, production up 20 per cent, over last year; Rover Co., Coventry, already sold out the whole of its 1955 programme, which means that every car is sold before it leaves the factory. Rover cars are going to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India, Switzerland, Spain, Norway and Sweden, as well as being in great demand at home.