ABSTRACT
expansion was the keynote during this ten-year period; expansion in the face of an almost chronic shortage of supplies, especially sheet steel. This shortage became acute in 1951 and 1952 under the pressure of rearmament, and car production, which had by then surpassed pre-war levels, actually declined. The expansion was resumed in 1953, and output grew very rapidly to more than double that of the best pre-war year.
