Exports Set Up New Records
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DESP1TE the remarkable achievementsments of 1949, British commercial vehicle manufacturers exceeded all export records in January of this year. The number of units exported rose from 9,300 in December to 10.872 in January, the value advancing from 14,091,164 to 14,543,938.
Australia was Britain's biggest customer and made record purchases, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
The form of the table published below has been altered slightly, as compared with those compiled previously. Dumpers and dump trucks are now shown separately.
In addition to new equipment, 224 used commercial vehicles, valued at.
£181,942, were shipped. Exports of agricultural tractors numbered 5,415 (£1,970,336). Shipments of parts and accessories were valued at 13,763,201.
The Board of Trade announced this week that February's exports were even greater than those of January and were 18 per cent, above the average for the last quarter of 1949.
I.R.T.E. PROGRESS IN N.W.
THE area had attained a membership of over 150 and there had been a high percentage of attendance at all meetings, said Mr. H. J. Jones, chairman, at the annual general meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, North-Western Centre, at Liverpool, last week.
The meeting was followed by an address from Mr. F. J. Everest, MSc.. M.I.Mech.E.. chief engineer of David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., on "Modern Automobile Transmissions."
POLAND TO BUY BRITISH VEHICLES
TALKS between British and Polish
trade delegations in London recently concluded. They covered the course of trade between the two countries under a five-year agreement signed in Warsaw last year. The value of British exports to Poland this year will be 11,300,000. commercial vehicles being among the most important.