Some Assembly Required

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This is one of my favourite images from Accelerator magazine.  It comes from the June 1959 (Vol. 15 No. 5) issue.

The text below it reads:

PARTS GALORE!

This is what you would get if you took a Holden Sedan completely apart!
The display took two men the best part of a week to arrange.  Every last nut and bolt is illlustrated here, some 17,000 parts in all.
Seeing this photograph gives you some idea of the organization involved in building a Holden.  As unit after unit rolls along the continuously moving production lines, stocks of various parts must always be at the right places in the right quantities to prevent a hold up in assembly.  The job of supply is a colossal one.  Similarly it is a colossal job to provide an adequate supply of replacement parts where and when they are needed.

YOU HAVE A PART TO TAKE IN THIS JOB TOO!

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Obviously the seat up the back gives it away as an FC and not an FE, but if you look closely you can see a dash shroud in the lower right corner, as well as FC grille bars around the steering wheel, which has the half-moon horn-ring on it.

The Editorial of the issue talks about the photo:

Your Part in the Parts Business

Multiply the number of parts in the picture [on the left] by the number of General Motors vehicles on the road and you get something like 17,000,000,000, and that's a lot of genuine GMH parts working on the roads of Australia.
It's because these parts are subject to damage by accidents, or wear caused by friction, or fatigue breakdowns due to prolonged strain, that the replacement parts business is necessary.
It is a big and important business too.  Big because it involves many millions of parts to be held in stock by Service Stations, located in every corner of this vast country.  It requires a network of Distributors, Dealers and Traders from whom owners can obtain the parts they need as and when they are required.  It is important because road transport of all types plays such a tremendous part in the National economy, and the availability of parts is essential to maintain these vehicles.
Your part in the business is to give service to vehicle owners, service with efficient repair work and the use of genuine car factory approved parts.
Over the years NASCO have told the automotive trade and the motoring public why it pays to always insist on Genuine GMH parts.  This advice is showing results as more and more owners of GMH vehicles realise that it is just plain common-sense to replace with the parts that GMH sees fit and worthy to include as original equipment in the new cars, utilities and trucks which roll from the GMH factories across Australia.
The volume of parts sold and used is increasing considerably year after year.  Therefore it is a good idea to periodically look at your parts department to ensure that you have room for expansion, that your records are working efficiently and that your policy of using only Genuine Parts sold by the various Car Manufacturers, is being maintained.

M.C. Watts, Editor.

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