Output Down: Export Value Up
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L.• OR the nine months ended Septem1 ber, commercial-vehicle output was down by one-twentieth as compared with the figures for last year. Although the number of units exported during the period was lower, their value increased from £69.37m_ to £79.95m.
_During September the number of goods vehicles, passenger vehicles and battery electrics produced totalled 24,704, the weekly average being 4,941. Of the total, 23,612 were goods vehicles, road haulage tractors and speciat types made up as follows: 7,489 up to 15 cwt. carrying capacity; 2,437, 15 cwt. to 3 tons; 1,465, 3 tons to 6 tons, and 1,039 over 6 tons.
Of the 929 passenger vehicles produced, 719 were single-deck and 206 were double-deck motorbuses, and 4 were trolleybuses. There were 163
battery-electrics built during the month.
In the nine months ended September. total production was 235,371 units, of which 227,073 were goods vehicles made up of 124,318 under 15 cwt. carrying capacity, 39,364 from 15 cwt. to 3 tons, 43,360 from 3 tons to 6 tons, and 20,031 over 6 tons.
Total production of passenger vehicles was 7,114, a which 5,283 were singledeck and 1,750 were double-deck motorbuses and 81 were trolleybuses. Batteryelectrics totalled 1,184.
Excluding dumpers, dump trucks and industrial trucks, the number of units exported in September was 10,378, their value, including the dumpers and trucks, being £7,407,085. For the first nine months of this year, 121,405 units. valued at E79,957,488, were exported to overseas markets.