A NEW AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY.
A big assembling business has developed in Australia in connection with the Ford car. The thousands of Fords sold in Australia are now bi ought overseas in parts, and the work "of assembling, from the bare frame members up, is done there. And what an industry it has grown into! All told, probably close on 1000 hands are now employed at this work, and the building of Ford bodies. In Melbourne a huge plant has been erected to cope with Ford equipment, and the output in bodies alone is at the rate of 2000 a year. The plant is systemised after the Ford factories, workmen being allotted standardised piece-work that greatly simplifies production and increases output. Similar plants are in operation in other States. It is an object-lesson of the benefits that accrae to the community in general, and the worknen in particular, by having all this v/ork done in Australia,, instead of having the complete cars shipped there.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 3
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163A NEW AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY. Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 102, 1 May 1919, Page 3
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