THE LETTER FROM J.J.KENNEDY

摘要

I left Canberra, returning to Melbourne to begin the hectic job of preparing a "Case for an Australian Car", which I would submit personally to the top executives of General Motors. It would be a selling job, I knew, and a tough one. Chifley and the Government didn't waste any time either. Less than three weeks after my talk with Chifley, J.J.Kennedy, Comptroller-General of Trade and Customs, sent a "letter of invitation" to the managing directors of all firms engaged in car assembly and manufacture, or likely to be interested in such work, in which he called on them to submit proposals to the Government for the manufacture of complete motor vehicles in Australia.