Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Board of Trade – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Tachwedd 1965.
Yes, Sir. We have been in touch with both companies about their export performance both in the United States and in West Germany. They have denied that their poor performance in the United States is in any way due to policy decisions by the parent companies. The position in the United States is that there has been very little demand for British saloon cars, and a large proportion of the British cars sold are sports models which neither Ford nor Vauxhall produce. I understand that the Ford Company has recently taken steps to strengthen its distributive arrangements in the United States and is embarking on a far more vigorous sales drive there.