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◊ 2024-03-18 18:22 |
Local build Simcas from 1953 (or perhaps earlier) until 68. Ariane and Aronde mentioned for 1950s, then from 1960 the P60 (possibly sold as the 9h.p. Etoile), and then later in 60s likely to be mostly 1000. |
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◊ 2024-03-18 21:13 |
Are there any brands that do not make cars in Ireland?  It's amazing the variety of cars that were assembled in Ireland during those years. |
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◊ 2024-03-18 21:48 |
It's the same in many countries around that time. I think it has to do with shipping. Partly because CKD was more efficient for space and partly because ready built cars were accident prone while shipping. |
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◊ 2024-03-18 22:52 |
Ireland was also very much about tax breaks - and the mirror of high tax on fully built imports. When it joined the EU in 1984, it had to harmonise with EU systems, which completely wiped out and advantage so local car builds abruptly stopped entirely. Also bear in mind that some of the minor brands, production figures were very low - maybe 50 per year or even less and built in workshops owned by the distributor, not by the original manufacturer. So while the spread of makes is very wide, only a few brands produced large volumes. However it's still a black hole to find out what happened to commercial builds (trucks, vans, buses, tractors) before/after 1984. I'm fairly confident a lot happened before 84, but there are hints that some level of activity survived afterwards and maybe new ones started such as recent mutterings that Hino truck builds started up, and some Aro jeeps under a new Irish special brand. |
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◊ 2024-03-18 23:15 |
Ireland joined the EEC in 1973 but import duty continued to be levied on cars from other member states until 1985. The assembly plants did not all shut down in 1984; the process began earlier. BL stopped local assembly in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Ireland#History Ford's Cork factory held out until 1984, two years after IR£10 million was invested in retooling for the Sierra. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_%26_Son_Ltd#Closure_of_the_plant Hino assembly continued because of EEC tariffs and quotas on Japanese automobiles. Robert "Pino" Harris, the Hino importer, was behind the ARO project. https://driventowrite.com/2021/11/25/hino-trucks-robert-harris/ -- Last edit: 2024-03-18 23:23:48 |
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◊ 2024-03-19 03:34 |
True - there was decline from the mid 70s (BL, Merc, VW, Opel, Skoda, Alfa all went before 1980), but 83-84 closures included most of the big hitters - Datsun/Nissan, Fiat, Renault, Ford, Toyota, Daihatsu, Mazda, Vauxhall, Chrysler/Talbot - in a mass extinction. |
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