Assembly: New Zealand Car Production 1921-1998

by Mark Webster

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869665317
• ISBN13: 9781869665319
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: White Cloud Books
• Length: 272 Pages