Exports Higher Than Last Year
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COMMERCIAL VEHICLE exports were greater in value and number in the first eight months of this year than in the comparable period of last year, states the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Holidays during August, however, curtailed production and exports.
Average weekly output fell from 4,532 in July to 2,562 in August. The month's total was 10,249, of which 5,090 were for export and 5,159 for the home market.
Goods vehicles, road haulage tractori* and special types numbered 9,836, made up of 3,625 under 15 cwt carrying capacity, 5.541 between 15 cwt. and 6 tons, and 670 over 6 tons. Passenger vehicle manufacturers produced 384 vehicles, of which 254 were single-deck and 122 were double-deck motorbuses, and eight were trolleybuses. Twentynine battery-electrics were built.
Output in the first eight months of the year totalled 153,200 vehicles (86,433 for export and 66,767 for home use). Goods vehicles, road haulage tractors and special types numbered 146,591 (68,782 under 15 cwt., 69,275 between 15 cwt. and 6 tons, and 8.534 over 6 tons). Passenger-vehicle output totalled 6,150 units (4,797 single-deck and 1,282 double-deck motorbuses and 71 trolleybuses). Battery-electries numbered 459.
In addition, 615 pedestrian-controlled vehicles were made in the first eight months of the year_ Works-truck pro duct ion from January to July numbered 4,400.
During August, 8,745 commercial vehicles (excluding dumpers and industrial trucks) were exported. The value of exports, including dumpers and industrial trucks, was £5,832,292. In July, 11,873 vehicles (£7,539,575) were shipped.
Exports from January to August totalled 99,131 units (£59,183,056). In addition, 2,524 used commercial vehicles (f 1.252,479), 77,238 agricultural tractors (£31,752,587), and parts and accessories to the value of £56,890,450 were shipped.
CORONATION WILL NOT INCREASE TRAVEL QO far as the travel business is cont.., cerned, the Coronation will be a
failure. This was the opinion of a Glasgow conference 'of Scottish and north of England travel agents convened by Global Tours, Ltd., last week. Delegates were convinced that people would be unwilling to travel to London and stand in the streets to see only a fragment of the procession, when they could watch the whole ceremony on television at home.
Mr. C. Shuman, managing director of Global Tours, Ltd., said that 10 times as many people were now travelling on Continental coach tours as before the war. His company had carried a record number of passengers in the season just ended.