{"id":133392,"date":"2023-03-30T16:39:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=133392"},"modified":"2023-03-30T16:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:39:46","slug":"a-production-programme-to-make-motor-spares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/03\/30\/a-production-programme-to-make-motor-spares\/","title":{"rendered":"A production programme to make motor spares"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Garvin Karunaratne.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is said that eighty percent of our oil imports are consumed by motor vehicles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus we have too many motor vehicles and the spares which we can make for them are many. It is time that Motor Car Dealers switch to making motor spares. My Paper tells it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Half a Million Jobs Lost?-Motor Trade. Is there a way out?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted on March 14th, 2021 in Lanka Web<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>By Garvin Karunaratne&nbsp;<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>500,000 jobs lost-Local Vehicle Industry(The Island 13\/3\/21) &nbsp;sends my mind to many instances in my experience that offer an immediate solution. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Near my home on Old Kesbewa Road\u00a0 Gangodawila Nugegoda there is\u00a0 a man making oil filters. He\u00a0 has been making those since the Sixties\u00a0 and selling them some where. In the UK\u00a0 and US where I have happened to have lived for years there are local makers of oil filters. It is very rare for a manufacturer\u2019s oil filter to be obtained from as far as\u00a0 France for a Peugeot or Germany for a BMW. Instead there are local oil filters, silencers,\u00a0 radiators and many other car parts. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lankaweb-com wp-block-embed-lankaweb-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"NSPKUb5IJE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/14\/half-a-million-jobs-lost-motor-trade-is-there-a-way-out\/\">Half a Million Jobs Lost?-Motor Trade. Is there a way out?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Half a Million Jobs Lost?-Motor Trade. Is there a way out?&#8221; &#8212; LankaWeb.com\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/03\/14\/half-a-million-jobs-lost-motor-trade-is-there-a-way-out\/embed\/#?secret=lacXqwWcF4#?secret=NSPKUb5IJE\" data-secret=\"NSPKUb5IJE\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Garvin Karunaratne. It is said that eighty percent of our oil imports are consumed by motor vehicles.&nbsp; Thus we have too many motor vehicles and the spares which we can make for them are many. It is time that Motor Car Dealers switch to making motor spares. My Paper tells it all. Half a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-garvin-karunaratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}