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WEIGHTS increase has given York Trailer its best volume of ness since the start of the recession, and it is predicting a return .ofits.
'flouncing a £237,152 net t last year (1981: £821,501 'oss), group chairman Fred s said there has been a y heavy business revival" ie British market this year.
larch saw the largest intake .ders for new trailers since ,eginning of the depression. I our service depots. .. are king flat out to satisfy ators' demands to update ing vehicles for 38 tonnes, iespite hiccups at the begin 1983 possesses for York ar all the signs of profitabil)ased upon the progress .4 in 1982," he said.
rk reports that most new nd curtainsided trailers are being built as tri-axle :les, although van operators aking longer to change to 38-tonne configuration. 3 also is a considerable ne of conversion work.
,ays it can deliver standard ification tri-axle trailers n around 10 weeks of being -ed.
s is a pattern being red across the industry, with an Tasker and axle maker ry Owen-Rockwell reportleast 60 per cent of their ness being for tri-axle les. Tasker says about half aw vehicles are tri-axle at tnt.
his review of York's per
formance last year, Mr Davies spares little charity for politicians and refers to "the adversities during these Thatcher years."
The mid-year slump across British industry last year was made worse, in Mr Davies's view, by the uncertainty over gross vehicle weights.
In addition, export business has suffered from the collapse of important markets,