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Output Down: Record July Exports

28th September 1956
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HOLIDAYS upset commercial-vehicle production in July, but exports were the highest in number and value for any July. Output dropped to a weekly average of 4,948, compared with a weekly average of 6,617 in the first seven months of the year.

Production in August fell to 2,906 units a week. In the first eight months of the year, 203,457 vehicles were built compared with 205,623 in the corresponding period of 1955.

Of the 19,794 commercial vehicles built in July, 19,023 were goods vehicles, road haulage tractors and special types of the following varieties:-Up to 15 cwt., 10,301; 15 cwt. to 3 tons, 3,460; 3-6 tons. 3,436; over 6 tons, 1,826. In addition, 433 single-deck and 186 double-deck motorbuses and three trolieybuses were built-a total of 622. Battery-electrics numbered 149. • In the first seven months of the year, .198,40 commercial vehicles were manufactured, of which 191,835 were in the goods category. These consisted of 106,344 under 15 cwt.; 32,568 from 15 cwt. to 3 tons; 36,240 from 3-6 tons and 16,683 over 6 tons. Bus makers produced 5,761 vehicles-4,252 singledeck and 1,435 double-deck motorbuses and 74 trolleybuses. Battery-electrics totalled 944 vehicles. July's exports of 13,490 units brought the total for the first seven months to 100,620.

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