240,000 Constructed: 111,300 Exported
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LAST year, 240,000 commercial .1-J vehicles and nearly 595,000 cars were built, a total of almost 835,000 units. Over 111.300 commercial vehicles and 302.000 cars were exported. The total value of exports of all motor products was £300m.
Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, C.B.E., director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, who made this announcement on Tuesday, said that the volume and value of exports in 1953 were lower than in 1952, but they were an achievement in the light of present trading conditions. Those conditions would become fiercer in the next 12 months and a tremendous call would be made upon the industry's resources to hold. let alone expand, the level of shipments.
Between the end of the war and last year over 750,000 commercial vehicles had been exported.
Mr. Gresham Cooke was speaking at a dinner of the East Lancashire and Cheshire Division of the Motor Agents' Association at Manchester.