JDC Mag 40Pp SEPTEMBER 2019.Pub

JDC Mag 40Pp SEPTEMBER 2019.Pub

A New Ramblings & Rumblings from the Highways of NZ. By Grumpy Geoffrey O’Connell. 2019. Part 2 of 2 McLean Motor-car Act 1898 ’. That was :owever, as the last such plant closed in followed over the years by a whole ra of 998, I am somewhat at a loss to understand Parliamentary legislaon which included: the o;cially quoted years= In 902 the $ Motor Cars Regulaon Act ’ The ‘ Rise and Fall ’ of the Car-Assembly under which an import tari& applied to cars Plants . and car components. In 907/8 a 20% tari& The 7rst car assembly plant was the $ 1922 was introduced on assembled cars imported Colonial Motor Company ’ at Wellington, but with no duty on bare chassis. which was devoted to the Ford Motor In 934 tari&s were announced to protect 2ompany range. They subsequently built ,rish Empire Trade and encourage the ‘outpost’ assembly plants at Parnell, assembly of cars in .ew /ealand. This led Auc4land, and Timaru, southwest of over the years to an ever0e1panding number 2hristchurch. In 936 Ford Motor 2ompany of such $2ar Assembly Plants’ which by the of 2anada too4 over the assembly operaon 980’s numbered some si1teen. which they relocated to a plant at Seaview, Their output was completed cars made0up Lower :u. Ford’s closed the operaon in from $ Completely Knocked Down (ckd ’ pac4s 988. from the then industrialised naons of the .e1t to open its doors was the $ General world. ,y the by, in 938 Import controls Motors ’ plant in 926 at Petone in the :u were passed to assist preserving foreign Dalley. It specialised in the assembly of currency reserves. Perhaps the most radical American ,uic4, 2hevrolet and Ponac cars. of the various 6overnment legislaons was From 93 ,rish Dauxhalls as well as that in 984. ,edford truc4s were also produced. In 9E4, In it all controls on inward and outward Australian :olden cars were introduced to foreign transacons were removed and the the assembly range and in 967 a new $Motor Industry Plan ’ was e&ected which assembly plant was opened at Trentham, rela1ed the rigid control of the import trade Fpper :u. The Petone plant closed in 984 in cars. and the Trentham plant in 990. Some That had a dramac e&ect on the assembly 600,000 vehicles had been assembled. plant business such as that by 988 only In 93 the $ Rover Company of N) ’ seven of some si1teen businesses were sll announced in February 932 it was opening operang. A further amendment in 987 a car assembly plant at Petone. ,y Guly 933 resulted in all import controls being removed the premises were empty and up for sale. and a reducon of the tari&s on vehicles and Possibly in 934, but de7nitely by 93E, the automobile parts. $Todd Motor Company ’, an Otago based Ford That 7nally brought the death04nell to the Iealer, built an assembly plant at Petone. remaining car assembly plants by 998. It has been reported that between 987 8 992 This was for the assembly of inially 2hrysler some 76,000 assembly plant 9obs were lost. and Iodge cars which were supplemented 36 by the Rootes 6roup (6t ,ritain) :illman, WW2 the /Associated Motor Industries 0 :umber and Sunbeam models. In 970 they Ausn Distributors .ederaon ’ combined to acquired the right to assemble Mitsubishi open a car assembly plant at Petone in 946 cars and in 97E they moved the factory to which closed in 983. a larger plant in Porirua, in the Wellington In 9E8 $ Motor 1oldings aka 23 Motors ’ th Region. October 973 saw the 200,000 built a car assembly plant in Otahuha, vehicle produced M a :illman :unter staon Auc4land. Into the 970’s the factory wagon. In 987 Todd Motors divested assembled Dol4swagens. themselves of the business, selling it to ./ They were followed by Iatsun, Fiat Mitsubishi Motors, who closed the ,ambina, :udson, .ash, Peugeot 403 8 enterprise down in 998. 404, Simca, S4oda and Studeba4er cars as In 936 a consorum of Amuri Motors, P: well as the ‘all .ew /ealand made’ Dic4ery, 2ossens and ,lac4 8 ,oon formed $Treka ’ ( 9660 973L. The Tre4a was a Land $Motor Assemblies (,outh Island Ltd .’ to Rover $ lookalike ’ but possessed very liCle of assemble cars at a 2hristchurch premises. the o&0road pro7ciency of the laCer. The The chosen vehicles to be assembled were components for it were sourced from the those of the American Iodge company. Post S4oda Octavia and imported in $ ckd ’ form WW2 a new assembly plant in 2hristchurch from 2Nechoslova4ia. Some 2,500 were built became operaonal. It was ta4en over by in its years of manufacture. Iuring the Standard-Triumph0Internaonal in 9E4 but assembly plant’s ‘life0me’ about 27,000 the plant ceased producon in 96E.In 937 vehicles were assembled. the partnership of Gac4 Seabroo4 (with later In 964 $ ,teel 4rothers ’, to become his younger ,rother Philip) and ,ill Fowlds $,teelbro ’, and trading as $ ,teel Motor formed $ ,eabrook .owlds ’ to assemble Assemblies ’ opened a car assembly plant in Ausn cars at .ewmar4et, Auc4land. 2hristchurch. They commenced building Aer WW2 the company linked up with Prince 6loria’s, inially produced by the other Ausn distributors to assemble Ausn Prince Motor 2ompany and then aer 97 truc4s which enterprise was merged with by .issan Motors. .ew /ealand Motor 2orporaon in 970. That model was followed by Iatsun’s, The laCer’s plant at Petone 7nally closed in MaNda’s and Toyota cars. In addion, they 983.In 939 the $ Ausn ,outh Island ’ was made and e1ported Lotus Seven sports cars formed by a consorum of car dealers to be from 973 to 979. In that laCer year the based in 2hristchurch. plant was acquired by Toyota and was 7nally In 938 $ Dominion Motors ’ commenced closed in 996. construcon of a car assembly plant at The $ Campbell Motor Industries ’ car .ewmar4et, which was completed by 939. assembly plant at Thames was completed in Iespite WW2 it thrived and built a new 964. Manufacturer’s $ ckd ’ pac4s assembled plant at Panmure, Auc4land which was included those from .issan, Peugeot, completed in 9E4. There Morris cars and Renault and Toyota as well as the 2hevrolet commercials were assembled. In 978 the Impala, Geep, Rambler 2lassic and Rebel .ewmar4et operaon was closed and all the cars. wor4 transferred to the Panmure plant. That factory 7nally shut0up shop in 987.Post 37 In 97E 2onsolidated Motor Industries 0 to It is sufficient to record that in 972 road be 2hallenge 2orporaon 0 to be Toyota .ew haulage had about E0% of the land freight /ealand 0 too4 over 2MI. transport but by the year of the total Road Death Toll and the Country’s Roads . deregulaon that had risen to some 80% of the carriage trade. In .aturally accompanying these massive the year 20 4 truc4s had some 9 % of the increases in populaon and car ownership so trade, Railways some 7% and coastal the annual road death toll has risen M shipping the remaining 2% of the freight. alarmingly. There is no need to advise that the increase In 92E that numbered 03, by 930 it was in the number of lorries and truc4s using the 246, in 939 the total was 246, in 9E3 it had highways has been dramac and of course risen to 3 3, in 97 the 7gure was 677, in has escalated dramacally the road 20 E the amount was 3 9, in 20 7 the death congeson in many areas of the country. toll was 378 and for the year 20 8 the In 982 the Railways were reorganised to tragedy reached 380, give or ta4e one or become a 6overnment owned 2orporaon M three fatal accidents. naonalisaon in any other language. As Meanwhile, the total length of all the stated in the previous paragraph, in 983 the country’s roads in 929 was some 00,000 legal protecon for the Railways in respect of 4ilometres whilst in 20 6, despite all the road compeon for freight was removed. In improvements that had ta4en place over the 990 the operang possessions of the years, including new motorways and toll Railway 2orporaon were transferred to a roads, allegedly the total length was some Limited Liability 2ompany, namely .ew 94,000 4ilometres. Mmmh! We have lost /ealand Rail Ltd., but sll owned by the some 4ilometres $ guvnor ’. 6overnment. The Changes to the Road Freight Transport Subsequently this was sold to a private Restricons and the consequences. consorum in 993. Iuring all these various The origins of the .ew /ealand Railway $shenanigans ’ the number of employees system date bac4 to the 860’s. ,y 880 the dropped from 2 ,000 in 982 to 3,7E7 by the overall trac4s were of some ,900 4ilometres year 2002. in length, transporng circa 3 million ,efore concluding this $ Railway saga , and passengers and 830,000 tonnes of freight. In the arcle, it is appropriate to add that Rose 9E3 the Railway system had grown to E,689 and I 7rst visited .ew /ealand in Ganuary 4ilometres. 2000. That was the year in which the To protect the Railways from road $3merica’s 2up’ yacht race was staged at compeon, in 936 Transport Licencing Auc4land in February/March. I seem to recall laws were passed precluding road transport that of the two or three gentlemen who had from carrying goods in e1cess of 48 allegedly pro7ted during all the $ Railway 4ilometres from their point of loading. In goings-on ’, one chose the yachng event to 96 this was increased to 64 4ilometres and return to .ew /ealand from a $ ,wiss in 977 to E0 4ilometres.

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