Brothers supplied Mercedes-Benz 4 ton vehicles to the Irish Free State army authorities in 1927. Further details of the vehicle are listed in Commercial Motor on 10 May 1927 WHEELS OF INDUSTRY. | 10th May 1927 | The Commercial Motor Archive and 27 May 1927, Page 80.WHEELS OF INDUSTRY. | 24th May 1927 | The Commercial Motor Archive. In the late 1920s, Irish coachbuilders were at their busiest, working on big bus-body orders. O'Gorman Brothers, employed over 100 men on one of their biggest bus orders. 1928 - Coachbuilders seek protection The Irish Free State Tariff Commission considered the application for the Imposition of a Protective Tariff. Details of Coachbuilding in the Irish Free State was provided by J.F.O'Gorman. He said very few bodies for motor vehicles were made in the Free State in 1927. If they obtained a tariff they would be quite capable of providing all the commercial vehicle bodies required for the Free State. He also said there was some difficulty in procuring skilled men, many of them having been attracted to England by higher wages. 1929 - Tariffs on imports J.F. O'Gorman called on the Government to place an effective tariff on the import of coachwork and motor bodies. He said there had been an exodus of highly skilled labour from the bodybuilding industry and the industry is capable of dealing with the country's requirements. 1930s The chassis for the vehicles in the 1930s, were assembled in County Cork and collected by the firm's mechanics. The Clonmel factory was the largest such establishment in the South of Ireland at the time and one of the most modernly equipped factories in the country. The first mechanical paint sprayer outside Dublin and Cork was installed at O'Gormans. The factory was renowned for its strict discipline. O'Gorman Brothers were the Ford Motor Company main dealers for all County Tipperary, Waterford City and portion of County Waterford. A number of O'Gorman Brothers single decker buses were built for Irish Omnibus Company. Several of them are listed in 1932 and 1934, on the Classic Irish Buses website. John F. O'Gorman voiced a complaint in the Dáil Éireann, Section 554 - 25 February 1931, about the ease and amount of ash being exported (the principal raw wood material for the industry). Messrs O'Gorman, were also quoted by Seán Lemass during a Dáil Éireann debate, Volume 45 - 22 December 1932 (Finance (Customs