[David_Hayward (RIP)]

I would dearly love a copy of the book for my own research. I can probably with 100% certainty say that the film was produced in 1944 as part of the General Motors overseas Operations programe to announce to the world that GM was in fact always behind the allies/United Nations, and that the world-wide subsidiaries were and always had been actively involved on the allied side. The official GMOO book of 1944 includes the Holden operations. Then in 1946 GM-H, Vauxhall, GM of Canada et al all produced their "What We Did In The War" books, as did Ford in England.

The point about copyright is easily resolved with asking permission to reproduce...but it's now 75 years in Europe. It was 50 years. Why not ask, and then do laser copies of the book and flog 'em to punters like me? Those pix will scane nicely. I know as the same thing has been done with the Vauxhall 1946 book, although consent was requested from official sources anyway.