Talk:Jowett Cars

End of Production of Javelins
I don't think the reasons supplied are correct. There was pent-up demand and the issue was supply of bodies, the owners decided it was all too difficult. They preferred to save their capital and closed up shop. I will research in newspapers of the day and add a note if I am correct. Eddaido (talk) 01:45, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'd be very happy to email to them copies of the scans of all the newspaper items concerned if those editors would give me a suitable way to do that. In the meantime here is a bit I've transcribed (from the Chairman's annual report, 1953)
 * While I'm here, what kind of 1930s Sales management would let themselves be cornered into having to sell a Weasel - stoatally different?

Ill-timed Campaign for Purchase Tax Abolition
"Throughout 1952 our export trade continued at the low level operating in the closing months of 1951, and exports for the whole of 1952 were nearly 75 per cent down on those of 1951. The home market continued to be buoyant until September, when buyers held off pending the Motor Show in October. However in place of the expected upsurge in sales following the Show there was a fall of such intensity that our home market deliveries for the last quarter of the year were at the rate of only 15 per cent of those of the previous nine months. We believe that this event was caused by, and certainly it was coincident with, an unsuccessful and in our opinion ill-timed campaign for the immediate reduction or abolition of purchase tax on motor vehicles. This campaign undoubtedly caused a great many to defer their purchases until after the Budget - since when the demand for our cars has far exceeded our capacity to supply on the lower production schedule now operating. The period of recession lasted some seven months and had most serious consequences for your company. Our stocks became greatly excessive before reduced production schedules could become operative, and consequently later production had to be temporarily reduced to a far greater extent than had been intended. The cost per vehicle. . . . . ." Eddaido (talk) 21:35, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:25, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

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