TEN MILLION MOTOR-CYCLES
World production of motor-cycles is at an alltime high. More than 10 million new motor-cycles were registered in the world in 1978, the latest year for which figures are available. The actual figure was 10,045,622. Of these, 9,287,565 were of 125 cu cm or less. A record six million of these rolled off the assembly lines of the big four big Japanese factories, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Kawasaki. Figures produced by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers’ Association show that
5,987,073 bikes were manufactured in Japan in 1978, an increase of 409,714 on the previous year. Britain leads the European bike registration stakes as far as Japanese machines are, concerned. Registrations in the United Kingdom totalled 230,901 in 1978, almost 100,000 ahead of France arid West Germany. However, the United States remains Japan’s biggest customer.- A total of 874,602 Japanese bikes were imported by the United States in 1978, and a further 499,789 were imported by Taiwan.
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