§ Sir F. SYKESasked the Postmaster-General what proportion, if any, of motor transport vehicles on charge of the General Post Office are of foreign manufacture and assembly; what proportion are of foreign manufacture, or part manufacture, and British assembly; and what proportion of manufacture and assembly in Great Britain or the Dominions by firms subject to control of foreign motor manufacturers?
§ Viscount WOLMEROf the amount hitherto spent by the Post Office on the purchase of motor transport vehicles the proportion representing vehicles of foreign manufacture and assembly is nil. The proportion representing vehicles of foreign manufacture and British assembly in the ordinary meaning of those terms is also nil; but 40 per cent of the vehicles of British manufacture and assembly contain a small admixture (about 3 per cent.) of foreign parts. The vehicles last-mentioned are made by a firm whose capital is largely foreign; the remaining 60 per cent. are entirely British-made by firms whose capital, so far as I am aware, is British.