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EEC vehicle output

19th March 1971, Page 16
19th March 1971
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• Production of commercial vehicles in the European Economic Community in 1970 increased by 2.6 per cent to 761,000 units, a 99 per cent increase over 1958. Again, Germany is the main producer, though France follows closely behind, with Italy standing in third place.

Italy's 1970 output was up 12.6 per cent over 1969, Germany's by 6.2 per cent, where

as French output dropped back by 2.1 per cent. As with cars, Belgian output fell back significantly, though this was more than made up by a major increase in assembly operations, so that "production plus assembly" in Belgium reached 70,000 vehicles, against 47,500 in 1969. In the table below assembly operations have been excluded:

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