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AMERICAN COMMERCIAL VEHICLE EXPORTS INCREASING.
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AMARKED upward tendency is still the leading feature of the American export trade in commercial motor vehicles. The latest return, available are those for August last, luring which month no fewer than 3,765 vehicles, valued at £1,171,095, were exported from the Ukted States, as compared with 4,142 and £674,153 respectively in the corresponding month of 1926. For the first eight months of the presencyear the 'exports of vans, lorries, buses and chassis, reached a total of no fewer . than 72,719, repre senting a gross value of £9,317,129, as contrasted with 44,604 vehicles (£6,317,484) in the corresponding period a year ago. The increase is thus 28,115 vehicles and £2,999,645 (about 47 per cent.) in value. • It is interesting to note that this large exportation of American commercial vehicles represents only 23.5 per cent, of the total output in the United States. The great bulk of the vehicles —60,317, or approximately 85 per cent.—have a carrying capacity not exceeding 1-ton, leaving 10,736 in the
1-21-ton category, and only 1,666 with a carrying capacity exceeding 21 tons.
So far as the principal markets for American commercial vehicles are concerned, 4ustralia continues far and away the largest purchaser, the Commonwealth being credited with no fewer than 20,092 vehicles, or nearly 28 per cent, of the total. Brazil comes second in the list with 7,540 vehicles, the remaining markets in the order of their importance being, the Argentine, Smith Africa, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain (3,806) and Spain,