1950 it was revealed that the car would cost less than £500 inclusive of sales tax. By March 1951 no cars had been delivered and the company revealed that the expected pricing was now £549 plus sales tax" meaning that the total purchase price would be less than £600. The first aluminium bodied Pacific Convertible vehicles sold in April 1952 cost £695 including sales tax. Company Failure Laurence Hartnett originally proposed that production of the car could be commenced in less than one year after the incorporation of the company in August 1949. The first production cars were released in April 1952. The production figures of 'several' cars per week fell significantly short of the 400 cars per week originally forecast. Between the launch of the company and the commencement of production there were almost monthly public assurances that the company was successfully overcoming production issues and that full production was only weeks away. The first public indication that the company faced significant issues was when questions were raised in Federal Parliament. On 28 August 1952 a member of the Labour opposition told the House of Representatives that he had failed to be given answers to two questions by the Government. Firstly he asked why General Motors Holden had been granted a £1 million overdraft from the government owned Commonwealth Bank where the same facility had been refused to the Hartnett Motor Company. Secondly he asked whether the government owned Commonwealth Engineering had obstructed the manufacturing of the Hartnett car by failing to deliver steel body panels that had been on order for over 18 months. Two weeks later the company called a creditors' meeting and stated that it was in debt £63,779 and that its business was at a standstill and production had ceased. The company claimed that Commonwealth Engineering had failed to deliver 2,000 sets of steel body panels as agreed in May 1950 with delivery commencing by May 1951. By June 1952 the Hartnett Company had not received a single set. For the first time it was revealed that the company had orders for only 314 cars. Hartnett Motor Company directors including Laurence Hartnett had previously claimed to hold orders for 2,000 cars, In December 1955 Commonwealth Engineering was ordered to pay the company £37,228 in damages for the non-delivery of the panels. The company had been seeking £170,000. The Hartnett Motor Company was dissolved at a