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mercial vehicles over the first half of the current year were of some 7,851, or -some 24.7 per cent more than the total of 6,298 for the corresponding 1961 period, it is announced in Berne. Of the new licences granted over the period for such vehicles, totalling 6,612 (5,239), some 3,299 (2,281) went to goods vehicles —an increase of 44.6 per cent—and a further 2,745 (2,514) to vans, 427 (310) to special commercial vehicles and 141 (134) to buses. Interesting is the fact that for all types of motor vehicles, imports into Switzerland from the United Kingdom rose by the steepest percentage; with over 80 per cent more exports of motor vehicles of all kinds to the Swiss market than over JanuaryJune, 1962, the British share of the market rose from 71 to 12 per cent. The Italian share of the total imports also increased—from 10 to 11 per cent—that of the other two major suppliers, France and Germany, falling.