Robert Conlon, John Perkins

Wheels and Deals (eBook, PDF)

The Automotive Industry in Twentieth-Century Australia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title was first published in 2001. The emergence and development of automobile production in Australia was a long, drawn out and costly business for car buyers and taxpayers. Wheels and Deals, is the story of some of the causes and effects of Australian Government policies on the local development of one of the most significant industries of the 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351775571
• Artikelnr.: 56889470

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: The Automobile Industry in Australia: A century of auto industry policy
False Start: The Early Years of Motoring and Automotive Manufacturing: The supply side
The demand side
The model T Ford in Australia
The tariff and the 'spoke-shave and hammer brigade'
Acceleration: The Accretion Model of Automotive Industry Development in Australia, 1919-1939: Tariffs as a source of revenue
The lobby
The role of the bureaucracy
Industry structure and performance
Tariffs and the 'motorization' of society
The outcome of interwar 'policy'
Stalled: Politics and Government Policies of the Later 1930s: Trade diversion and the motor vehicle engine bounty proposal
National interest or self interest? Conflict and cooperation among the leading firms
Political conflict and the bounty scheme
War and the Motor Vehicles Agreement Act
A patriotic duty: Australian Consolidated Industries and the so-called monopoly
The end of the affair
Evaluation
The Canadian Connection: Early development of the industry in Canada
Market conditions
Trade barriers and foreign ownership
Trade barriers, automobile production and exports
Evaluation
Britain and Empire: Regaining the Australian market
Australian trade policy in the 1930s
British producers and Australian production
Post-Second World War: From proposal to manufacture: the establishment of an industry
The development of the industry in the 1950s
The local content plans, 1964-1983
The 'Button' Car Plan and the Post-1992 Environment: A selective look at the post-Button Plan industry
A Summing-up: The 1990s and beyond
How protection shaped the Australian automotive industry in the 20th century
Bibliography
Index.