8,800 COMMERCIAL VEHICLES EXPORTED IN TWO MONTHS
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FEBRUARY'S exports of 3,615 new commercial vehicles, valued at £1,534,603, brought to 8,806 (€3,539,578) thetotal exported in the first two months of this year. Motorbuses and trolleybuses, completed and in chassis form, to the number of 193 (£176,617), were exported in February, and 726 (€471,970) in January-February.
Exports of other classes of new vehicles in February were: Vans and utilities, 888 (£240,435); industrial trucks, 93 (€22,500); other vehicles not exceeding 3 tons unladen, 409 1£188,166); exceeding 3 tons, 123 (€98,163). Comparable figures for the first two months of the year, as issued by the S.M.M.T., are: Vans and utilities, 2,178 (£526,566); industrial trucks, 244 (£66,929); other vehicles not exceeding 3 tons unladen, 1,058 1£479,318); exceeding 3 tons, 358 (€311,466).
In addition, 188 new general haulage tractors (€120,309) went overseas in February and 248 (£177,220) in the first two months of the year. Figures for
• trailers are: 629 (€109,977) and 1,479 t€270.653).
FRANCE IMPORTS 20,000 VEHICLES
1 AST year France imported 20,291 -Li vans and lorries, as against only 797 in 1938. Of the 1946 total, 10,019 units came from Canada, 6,404 from the United States, 3,616 from Great Britain, 189 from Germany, and 63 from other countries.
Exports last year totalled 11,270 vehicles, as compared with 2,396 in 1938 NEW COUNTRY RENDEZVOUS
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