Export Record Broken Again
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L' OR the third month running, the exports of new commercial vehicles for January this year reached the highest 4 figure ever recorded. A total of 17,923 vehicles, representing nearly £131m., were sent overseas—comparing very favourably with the December record total of 15,046 units to the value of £12m.
The increase was almost entirely due to the number of goods vehicles exported. In January the total was 16,393 and in the previous month it was 13,269.
It may be that this record-breaking trend will not continue much longer, as the production of commercial vehicles slumped from 45,510 in December 1960 to 38,152 in the following month. However, the weekly average in January at 9,538 was well above the normal and almost as high as the record weekly average for 1960 of 9,677, in June.