CONDITIONS IN ENGLAND.
ON ROAD TO BETTER TIMES. MOTOR INDUSTRY FLOURISHING. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr D. Stewart Fraser, export manager for the English motor manufacturing firm of Riley ( Coventry), Ltd., arrived by the Rangitiki from London yesterday, “When we left. England there was a general feeling that the nation was hack on the road to better times," said Mr Fraser. “The motor industry Is flourishing. AVe have definitely \vOn an Innlhgs in fields formerly devoted entirely to other cars. A case In point is South Africa, This is due partly to the vast improvements effected recently in British cars, and partly to the production of a British car purposely designed to suit the colonial market." British manufacturers, he said, had gone to a great deal of trouble to study overseas conditions on tiie spot.
While in South Africa Mr Fraser broke the speed record between Durban and Johannesburg, 400 miles, and between Capetown and Johannesburg, 1000 miles.
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18778, 28 October 1932, Page 2
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