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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Assembly: New Zealand Car Production 1921-1998

Assembly: New Zealand Car Production 1921-1998

Webster, Mark

Hardcover

Business GeneralAutomobilesGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1869665317
ISBN13: 9781869665319
Publisher: White Cloud Books
Published: Oct 27 2021
Pages: 272
Language: English
New Zealand's car assembly industry began with the Colonial Motor Company piecing together Ford Model Ts in the early 1920s, and the first true production line came in 1926 with General Motors. For the next 70 years, as governments imposed tariffs on importing completely built up cars, the assembly industry directly employed thousands of New Zealanders, and indirectly supported tens of thousands more. Factories assembling models from the Morris Minor to the Toyota Hilux became part of the social fabric of communities up and down the country. A highly pictorial and well researched book that indirectly provided employment to nearly 8% of the New Zealand workforce at one point in our short history, including a full epilogue of the effects of the closures over the last 23 years after the last closure.

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