New Zealand - Palmerston North - Justice and Edmonds Service Station - Church Street - Louis M Justice and Herbert Edmunds established their business at 334 Church Street, beside All Saints Church, in 1919. By 1937 they were employing 38 staff, selling Morris, Hudson, Parkard and Dodge cars and in the workshop. In the mid 1950s they diversified into tractors and farm machinery. The garage closed in 1980. - 1937 - Snapshots Unlimited Photo The automotive industry in New Zealand - Supplies a market which has always had one of the world's highest car ownership ratios - The distributors of new cars are essentially the former owners of the assembly businesses. - At the dealership level they have maintained their old retail chains in spite of the establishment of the many new independent businesses built since the 1980s by specialists in used imports from Japan. - Toyota entered into direct competition with those used-import businesses refurbishing old Toyotas from Japan and selling them through their own dealers as a special line. - The nation's car fleet is accordingly somewhat older than in most developed countries. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_New_Zealand) --------------------- Image source: Justice and Edmonds Service Station, Church Street – Snapshots Unlimited 1937, No Known Restrictions https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/b5fae5b1-c105-4cee-b26e-02ba384b90dc