Skip to main content

Kōrero: International economic relations

General Motors plant, Petone, Wellington, 1940s

Image
General Motors plant, Petone, Wellington, 1940s

General Motors opened this plant near Wellington in 1926 to assemble cars for the local market, to complement imports from its Canadian plant. This photo was taken in the 1940s, by which time regulations favoured local assembly and relatively few cars were imported.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Gordon H. Burt Collection (PA-Group-00743)

Reference: 1/1-015617; F

by Gordon Burt

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Malcolm McKinnon, International economic relations – The US and New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24809/general-motors-plant-petone-wellington-1940s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 2 March 2010.