Japan Makes More Lorries than Cars
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A MONG the vehicle producing countries of the world, Japan is unique in that it produces more commercial vehicles than cars. In 1958 it ranked as the fifth largest producer of commercial vehicles, with an output of about 133,000 units—representing 72.6 per cent. of its total vehicle production.
For the first six months of 1959, commercial vehicles produced in Japan totalled 82,857, of which 6,582 units were exported. The reason for this is that production so far has mainly been concentrated on types of ultra-lightweight delivery van—many of them threewheelers—which find very little sale abroad; 57,893 of these small vehicles were manufactured, of which a mere 837 were exported.
Production of larger lorries-5-tonners and over—together with buses, totalled 24,964 during the first six months of 1959, and, of these, 5,745 were exported —mainly to Taiwan, Okinawa, Thailand and Brazil.