The outlook is less encouraging. Severe rationing of petrol begins in Australia in September and may restrict car buying among our best customers. Portugal, our last market in Europe, is also imposing restrictions.
But at least, as an official of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said recently, if we are not selling cars abroad nobody else is. We are not losing markets to rivals, not even to the United States, and if manufacturers can get the steel, for steel allotted by the Board of Trade is not the same thing as stea' on the factory floor, British motor ports will continue to help to pay or the munitions and food we have to import.
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