Manufacture of automobiles in China

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ID	59
Name	Chinese-made automobiles
Title	Manufacture of automobiles in China
Year	1923
Author	Hoyt, Lansing W., Trade Commissioner
Collection	NARA, General records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG151)
Sub collection	Automobiles, China
Reference Number	File Class 531, Box 2238
Repository type	Archive
Description	Report regarding the possible manufacture of automobiles in China. Encloses the translation of an article from the Chinese newspaper Xinwenbao, dated May, 11, 1923, entitled "Chinese Invention of Electric motorcar", and a report by the American Trade Commissioner entitled "Chinese Electric Automobile". (2p) Letter from Hoyt on the subject of the China Ming Shen Trading Company involved in the manufacture of Chinese automobiles. (1p), dated July 2, 1923. A Chinese official named Hu Kuo Kang (former director of the Shanghai storage battery plant of the Ministry of Communications), founder of "The Chinese Storage Battery Factory", 14-15 North Thibet Road, Shanghai. Inventor of the first "electric car" (automobile driven by electricity).
Comment	File Class 531, Box 2238, 1919-1925 p.22-24, 26
Keywords	Chinese ; manufacture ; automobile ;

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