§ 52. Major BEAUMONT THOMASasked the Postmaster-General the total number of motor vehicles in use by his Department; how many are of foreign manufacture; what various types of vehicles these are; and what foreign vehicles, if any, are on order at present?
§ Mr. ATTLEEThe total number of motor vehicles of all kinds at present in Use is 5,899, of which 4,998 are of all-British manufacture. The remaining 901 are Ford vans with all-British bodies, and with chassis of which four are of foreign manufacture and the remainder of British manufacture except for a small percentage of foreign parts. No vehicles of foreign manufacture are on order; but 10 Ford vans are on order which will contain a small percentage of foreign parts in the chassis.
§ Mr. HANNONWill the hon. Gentleman see that, in future, as these Ford vehicles go out of employment, they will be replaced by British-made vehicles?
§ Mr. ATTLEEThe hon. Member cannot have caught my answer. These Ford 1663 vehicles are all British, except for very small portions of parts which are sent ready-made from America.
§ Captain Sir WILLIAM BRASSBut is it not a fact that the money made out of these Ford vehicles goes to the United States?