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12th September 1981
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COMMERCIAL VEHICLE sales are still showing no sign of recovei with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders recording 12.5 per cent fall in new vehicle registrations last month.

Compared with August 1980, importers increased their market share from 31.6 to 4139 per cent, with sales actually rising from 8,972 to 10,157 vehicles. British commercial sales dropped from 19,078 to 14,505.

Sales of trucks and artics fell from 6,012 to 4,679, with foreign manufacturers increasing their sales from 1,258 to 1,361. Ford was top with 1,071 British and 16 Dutch Transcontinentals, a fall from 1,589 and 26 respectively in August 1980. Bedford came second with 7 sales (down from 1,037), a Leyland was third with a dr from 976 to 662, One of the biggest increaf. was recorded by DAF, with se more than doubled from 117 257. A DAF spokesman told ( that the company has increas its sales force by 19 this ye and believes that this, and back-up facilities, helped achieve 16.3 per cent of the ton plus tractive unit market.

Scania sales rose from 54 71, and Volvo went up from 2 to 321.

Non-car derived van sales from 12,733 to 11,970, with i porters also scoring an ilium here, from 5,426 to 6,333. Fo predictably, kept ahead, w 3,330 sales, a drop from 3,979 August 1980.

Sales of car-derived va dropped from 7,801 to 6,5: but, again, importers sold mo rising from 1,595 to 1,647. Fc regained its lead from BL, w 2,541 sales (up from 2,422).


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