New Zealand - Upper Hutt - Vehicle assembly at General Motors - 1974 - R Anderson Photo General Motors New Zealand Limited - At the end of the year 1925, the acres where the factory of General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd. now stands, was a plot of untidy neglected ground in the heart of what was later to become a growing industrial centre; no services were there; no railway, no heat, no light, no water, no drainage —nor was there even a road to connect it to the main traffic arteries. - The years that have followed in the history of General Motors, New Zealand, Ltd., are a record of achievement—achievement in applying overseas production methods to local conditions; and achievement not only in setting new records for this type of manufacture, but for actually inaugurating it. General Motors were thus the pioneers of the New Zealand assembly of motor-cars and trucks... (Reference: read more at https://library.huttcity.mebooks.co.nz/text/Petone100/t1-body-d35.html) --------------------- Image source: Vehicle assembly at General Motors, Upper Hutt* Archives New Zealand Reference R24809066 AAQT 6539 W3537 142 / B5100 https://digitalnz.org/records/37335055/vehicle-assembly-at-general-motors-upper-hutt