History A-Level
Consumer credit and widening markets
What Consumer credit and widening markets means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Consumer credit and widening markets
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Hire purchase and dealer networks, together with rising real wages for some workers, made the car available to more buyers.
Topics that use Consumer credit and widening markets
- Paper 3, Option 34.1: Industrialisation and social change in Britain, 1759–1928: forging a new society - 5 Herbert Austin: creating and adapting to market forces, 1905–28 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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