NEW &mt, INDUSTRY THE Colonial Motor Company, Limited, entirely owned and operated by New Zealanders, has extensive factories for the building of Ford Cars at Auckland, Wellington and Timaru. Employment is found for 640 New Zealanders, in- • eluding Mechanics, Elec-* tricians, Body-Builders and Motor Painters. Exclusive of the above Factory Staffs, 877 men are regularly employed by Ford Dealers throughout New Zealand -making a grand total of 1,517 persons directly engaged in New .Zealand's Ford Industry. r € 1 Builohnos I Ilf W k' \ US D & VflH WELLINGTON FACTORY THE three plants, illustrated here, now cover 240,000 square feet of space, and cost £200,000 to erect. In addition to building, upholstering and painting, some parts of the New Ford Cars are now actually manufactured in New Zealand. This follows the basic Ford principles of manufacturing near the best source of supply and assembling near the point of distribution which saves freight, eliminates unnecessary handling, and ensures delivery of the finished product to the owner in better condition. 4 •u AUCKLAND FACTOR V *» TIMARU FACTORY * m ’.A * Vw<it.* 0 m
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19260316.2.7.1
Bibliographic details
Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 5
Word Count
178Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 5
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Witness. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in