USED-CAR DIFFICULTY
SERIOUS PROBLEM IN U.S.A. (Special to the Herald.' AUCKLAND, this day. “Two thousand motor cars parked • outside an American factory which employed .‘IOOO hands gives some idea of the extent to which ears are used by American workmen,” said Mr. Innes Bandoif, managing director for General Motors (Australia), Ltd., who arrived, in Auckland by the s.s. Port - Bowen yesterday. tie is returning from a business visit to the United States. ' In America the used-car difficulty was a very serious one to the trade, said Mr. Bandoif. Fortunately, the extent to which ears were used by American workmen was providing a big market. Sometimes two or three men would go in together and purchase a second-hand car, taking it in turn to use it on week-ends. Second-hand cars were not so bad, remarked Mr. Bomtolf, but the difficulty was how to dispose of fifth, sixth, and seventh-hand ears, and the country was littered with them. He found "the motor industry very brisk in the States.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 7
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