Motor Assemblies

Motor Assembles - A Story MOTOR ASSEMBLIES LIMITED A small South African Assembly Plant that became a major Manufacturer Foreword This memoir relates the post war history of the South African Motor Industry as seen primarily from the involvement of Motor Assemblies Ltd, just one of the several manufacturing plants that comprised the industry. To-day MA has become the manufacturing arm of Toyota SA Ltd. It is a personal story told by some of the participants and concerns their and others’ place in the history of the industry. Most of the facts and figures are well known and have appeared elsewhere but this time the telling should be without Company hype. However, the events that occurred rather than the participants provide a much more important picture of how the world’s motor manufacturers reacted to both economic and political pressures over the years. South Africa was very much atypical of the industrial developments spawned through the medium of the motor industry. Not...