August registrations fail to halt CV slump
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• Britain's truck manufacturers have suffered another disastrous month. Despite the traditional August surge registrations continued to plummet, falling 29% from August 1990, according to the latest SMMT figures.
For the year to date CV registrations were 151,107 — down 30% on January-August 1990. Leyland Daf does not expect UK truck registrations to pick up before the end of the year, but it believes the slump has bottomed out.
Mercedes-Benz says: "The buying pattern has fallen on real demand, rather than the normal artificial demand when operators have waited until August to get new registrations."
Registrations over 3.5t August 1991 (1990) Iveco Ford 807 (1,223) Leyland DoE 796 (1,242) Mercedes-Benz 677 (1,169) Volvo 523(717) Scania 230(335) Renault 192(317) MAN 175(264) ERF 165 (254)
AWD 88(152) Seddon Atkinson 78(1101
Foden 42(105) Dennis 36(31)
Total (UK) 2,252 (3,2141
Total (import) _1,567 (2,725) Total 3,819 (5,939)