Motor Manufacturer
Motor Manufacturer: Cars, vans and lorries off a moving line. A motor maker is a design office, a body shop, a paint shop and an assembly line, fed by…
Cars, vans and lorries off a moving line. Build a car the country can afford, on a line that never stops.
A motor maker is a design office, a body shop, a paint shop and an assembly line, fed by hundreds of suppliers who must all deliver on the day. The money is in volume: the model that sells a hundred thousand pays for the three that do not. Tariffs protect the home market for most of the century, the unions are strong from the 1950s, and a new model is a bet the size of the company.
- Setup costs
- £5,500,000 to £110,000,000
- Competition
- High
- Category
- Heavy Industry & Energy
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