German Makers' .World Position Better
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GERMAN manufacturers of caramecial vehicles last year improved their relative position in world markets because output in the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy was below that of 1956, says the annual report of Daimler-Flenz A.G., published last. week. The company increased their output of commercial vehicles by 10.9 per cent. and of Unimog tractors by 18.8 per cent.
At December 31 last, commercialvehicle export orders its hand were more than 30 per cent, greater than at the corresponding date a year earlier.
Last year, 6,438 goods vehicles were produced at the Stuttgart-Untertfirkheim and Sindelfingen factories, 25,452 goods vehicles and buses at Mannheim, and 11,062 goods vehicles, buses and special tractors at Gaggenau. Because of difficulties created by now 'German transport legislation, the output of heavy commercial vehicles at Gaggenau dropped by 18.4 per cent.
Daimler-Benz exported 57 per cent, of the commercial vehicles from 11 tons upwards shipped from Germany, and about 70 per cent, of vehicles of 3 tons and over.
The report emphasizes "a growing need for the German export industry to be granted cheap long-term credits in order to finance large foreign orders" for commercial vehicles.
In the first four months of the current year, production of commercial vehicles by Daimler-Benz AG, was 31 per cent. higher than in 1957.