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- 1 2 Solomon, Eli (April 2006). "The Motor Millions – Towards Our Own Car: Six Years to Assembling Cars in the Peninsula 1963–1968". BiblioAsia. National Library Board, Singapore.
- ↑ Jennings 1975, p. 43.
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