SMMT appeal
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THE SOCIETY of Motor M facturers and Traders want Government to provide encouragement to veh manufacturers, and will submit a series of questior the Department of Industry.
President of the SM George Turnbull, said last that the nub of the appeal wi a request that the 10 per new car tax be removed, bL also said that it is on beha the entire industry, comme vehicle builders too.
Exports amount to f4b year, but these will dimi without support, he said.
He revealed that anot round of negotiations wa.1 take place this week between SMMT and JAMA, its Japar counterpart. This, he ant pated, would follow rec practice, with the Japan "prudent marketing" unc standing (not an agreemi continuing.
• Commercial vehicle sales again last month, ending up per cent below those for S tember 1981. But for the nine months of the year, they still up, by 5.4 per cent.
The truck and artic market with sales down from 3,857 3,690. British vehicle sales from 2,770 to 2,463, a drop fr 71 per cent to 66 per cent c shrinking market.
Ford remained market lea, with 22 per cent (24 per cent I year), followed by Leyland's per cent (1981:17 per cent), K rier's 11 per cent (1981: eight I cent), and Mercedes' nine cent (1981: six per cent).