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MOTOR EXPORTS TOTAL £1,000,000 -A WEEK

7th February 1947
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DURING 1946, the British motor industry exported cars, commercial vehicles, and accessories to the value of 111,000,000 a week, or more than three times the value of exports in 1938. Last year, 48,000 commercial vehicles were exported.

Production in 1946 was at a rate of more than 1,000 vehicles a day. During the last quarter of the year production represented 91 per cent, of the 1938 output.

These figures were given by Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, at a luncheon of the Motor Agents' Association, in Southampton, on January 30. Whether production could be maintained at the recent high figure, he said, depended on a number of factors,. over some of which the industry had no control.

Further information on the export situation is provided by the Austin Motor Export Corporation, which since the end of the war has exported cars, commercial vehicles and spare parts to the value of more than £10,000,000. Over 35,000 vehicles have been sent abroad. More than 1,000 Austin vehicles have gone to each of 12 overseas markets, representing three times the volume and more than five times the value of pre-war activities over a comparable period.

Col. Arthur Waite, managing director of the Corporation, points out that 82 per cent. of Austin exports have gone to the sterling and " hard " currency areas.


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