NEW TYRE FACTORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 11

NEW TYRE FACTORY

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The likelihood of the Goodyear Tyre Company opening a large manufacturing plant in New Zealand was mentioned at Auckland by Mr J. R. Templin, of the Christchurch 'firm of Tcmplin and Toogood, consulting engineers, who had just returned from an extended business visit to the United States. Mr 'Templin discussed the project with leading officials of the company. “No definite decision had been readied at the time of my departure from Los Angeles,” Dir Templin said. “However, the company had been supplied with data concerning various proposed sites for a large factory and an early statement of policy is likely to he made.”

It had been pointed out, Mr Templin continued, that New Zealand was practically the only large motor-using country which did not have its own factory. In consequence the Dominion’s imports of; motor tyres reached a large figure every year. The proposed factory, which would employ several hundred hands, would be intended primarily for the manufacture of motor tyres, but would also be capable of turning out other rubber products.