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2nd September 1966
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EDFORD truck manufacturing capacity is to be increased by about 30 per cent to 85,500 tits a year by the end of 1967. Announcing is at Dunstable, Mr. David Hegland, chairman id managing director of Vauxhall Motors Ltd., id that an additional 313,000 square feet of or space would be provided for truck producxi, 220.000 square feet of it at the company's unstable factory where truck manufacture Id been centralized for many years.

"1966 will he a pretty good year for Bedford", Lid Mr. Hegland. "We expect to sell about 1,000 truck and bus chassis and 40,000 light ins. 42,000, or 57 per cent of the trucks, indentally, will be sold overseas. They will be orth more than £30 million in foreign currency.

"It looks as if Bedford will account for some co-fifths of all British truck exports this yearLat is, of vehicles of more than two tons unden weight."

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