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1958 Exports Earn over £89m.

20th February 1959
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EXPORTS OF 7,666 commercial vehicles in December brought the total for 1958 to 121,685, valued at £89,656,923. This was a poorer performance than in 1957, when 130,794 vehicles were sold overseas and earned £96,961,051. Shipments in 1957 may have, however, been inflated by numbers of vehicles which would have been exported in the latter months of 1956 but for the Suez crisis and its attendant shipping difficulties.

Totals of commercial vehicles sent to Leading markets last year, with 1957 figures in parentheses, are as follows:

Australia 14,910 (15,950); South Africa 10,936 (13,300); Ghana and Nigeria 7,190 (7,212); New Zealand 5.670 (8,142): Denmark 5,132 (4,692).

In the first nine months of last year, British imports by the European Common Market countries were: Belgium, 1,319; France, 17; Holland 1,584; Italy, 9; Western Germany, 29; Luxembourg. 9; total, 2,967, which compares with a sum of 19,052 for the whole of Europe.

Compared with 290,122 vehicles made in 1957, the 1958 figure of 312,856 indicates a higher demand from the home

market. Last year's production is

detailed in tabulated form on this page, together with export statistics_

Production in 1957 comprised 278,755 goods vehicles, road-haulage tractors and special types, 1,869 battery-electrics (no longer separately classified), and 9,498 passenger vehicles. Of the goods vehicles, etc., 142,148 were of up to 15 cwt. carrying capacity, 61,355 15-cwt,-3 tons, 51,234 3-6 tons, and 24.018 over 6 tons, These arc all below the 1958 figures, except in the 3-6-ton category, in which 37,569 vehicles were produced last year -a substantial drop that may reflect the effects of purchase tax.

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