MOTOR INDUSTRY.
GROWTH IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 20. Preparations for the Olympia Motor Show are rapidly nearing completion, and leading manufacturers have their new season’s programme of production well in hand. Dr Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, speaking at a display, said that since 1923, when the motor-car industry began its popular development, the production of British vehicles had risen from 71,000 cars and 23,000 goods vehicles to 171,000 cars and 61,000 goods vehicles. Between 1925 and 1932 imports of motor vehicles had fallen from 41,000 cars to 2762, and from 6000 commercial vehicles to 310. Exports had shown encouraging progress, rising from 15,000 vehicles in 1924 to 40,000 last year, and 33,000 in the first eight months of the current year. Britain was now exporting 15.6 per cent. of her production, against 2.6 per cent, by producers in ..the United States.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 7
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