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rHE Transit is um Britain's best-selling
medium van, claims Ford Motor Co. Ltd. 'he company says its July sales figures show le Transit with a lead over all other cornetitive vehicles in the 12 to 35 cwt. payload ange. In the first seven months of this year, ays Ford, its share of medium van sales howed a 19 per cent improvement, with sales till rising.
The Dagenham company reports that D Series ales are also climbing fast and that Ford's hare of this market over the first seven months If the year represented a sales improvement of ,4 per cent.
The company claims that it is now Britain's mding exporter of trucks and medium vans Ind says that shipments of these Ford vehicles o far this year are up by 40 per cent on 1965. Che Transit has sold especially well abroad ind Ford reckons that in two months of this rear the company exported more medium vans han all other British manufacturers put ogether.
lirfield Takeover: Birfield Ltd. has acquired the whole of the share capital of Basildon Metal Powder 3 arts Ltd., of Thundersley. Essex, manufacturers of intered components by the powder metallurgy ,rocess. Bound Brook Ltd., a company that has .eveloped within the Birfield Group to the point that : is said to be the largest British manufacturer of intered metal products, will work closely with Basildon netal Powder Parts.