page_title: National Roads and Motorists' Association
section_title: Growth
hierarchical_section_title: National Roads and Motorists' Association / Recent history / Growth
caption_attribution_description: CARnivale, Australia Day, Sydney 2015
context_page_description: The National Roads and Motorists' Association is an Australian organisation offering roadside assistance, motoring advice, car servicing, International Driving Permits, travel, and other services in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It is a member-owned mutual organisation.
  The organisation historically also offered insurance. That segment was eventually spun out as NRMA Insurance, and is now a brand and operating unit of Insurance Australia Group. The NRMA and NRMA Insurance are independent companies and are both in agreement to use the same brand and name. Both companies are responsible for distinguishing the difference between the two organisations.
context_section_description: The 1950s heralded the beginning of a huge surge in the number of cars on Australian roads, and NRMA membership increased in kind. It hit one million members in the 1970s, and by the late 1980s that number had doubled. To ensure the fleet of NRMA Patrols could find their members they adopted new technologies at the time like the two-way radio and the latest Holden panel vans.
caption: Holden HT Belmont NRMA Road Service panel van.
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