B.M.C. Sales In U.S.
More British Motor Corporation cars were sold in the United States in the first seven months this year than in the whole of 1958, Hambro Automotive Corporation, B.M.C.’s United States representative, announced last week, according to the New York correspondent of the “Financial Times.”
The total up to the end of July was 34,087 units. In the same period last year 17,711 cars were sold, and in the whole of 1958, 33,109.
B.M.C. is the fourth largest motor manufacturer in the world after Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.
Quill Morris.—lnterim dividend of 5 per cent, is payable on August 31. Books will close from August 24 to August 31. Last year's interim dividend of 5 per cent, was fo lowed by a final dividend of 6 per cent. Classic Manufacturing.—Recommended final dividend is 4 per cent., making 8 per cent, (unchanged) for the year. The dividend is payable on September 25, ex September 18.— (P.A.) Waihi Investment.—Recommended dividend for the year 1958 is 5 per cent., less British income tax of 7s 9d in the £, payable on October 14. ex September 19. The accounts will be issued on September 9 and will show a loss of £1932 "due to the non-receipt of a dividend from Puket Tin ’—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 17
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