MOTOR CAR WORK FOR 5000 PEOPLE.
LONDON; March 12.— The first national war factory to he sold is the aircraft engine factory at Edmonton, which has been bought by . MfeSsrs. Straker, Squire, Ltd,, the motor' manufacturers, for £140,000. This is £7000 more than it cost to build. The purchasers, , states the Ministry of M uhitions, propose to transfer all their manufacturing, activities- to the factory, which will be organised on. the lines of .quantity production. It is anticipated that 5006 workpeople will be employed. " . The' ■ firm's programme is to concentrate on a . .6.-eylihdeir car acrid a 4-cylinder commercial chassis. According to presept plans 2000 completo vehicles will be produced from the factory within the first year.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14937, 16 June 1919, Page 5
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