SHRINKING RETURNS
MOTOR-CAR TRADE
IMPORTS DOWN BY TWO-THIRDS
Motor vehicles imported during the ten months ended October 31 of this year numbered 6135, or less than onethird of those imported for the corresponding months of last year, namely 24,607. The value of the imports for this year's period was £983,878, compared with £4,102,661 for the ten months of 1939, showing the "slashing" effects of import restrictions. Motorcycles imported were 322 in number, compared with 887 for the 1939 period and the value of these imports for this year so far as it has gone is £19.685, compared with £47,703 for the 1939 ten months.
Motor spirit imports (required also for aeroplanes) are reduced in volume this year to ,82,018,973 gallons, against 87,842,360 gallons for the ten months of 1939; but the value is greater for the reduced quantity, by some £300,000, the exact figures being: Ten months, 1940, £1,919,877; ten months, 1939, £1,639,301. Crude oil imports are also less in volume for this year, but are greater in value than for the 1939 period in review, being £560.415 for 45,692,541 gallons, against £497,519 for over 4,000,000 gallons less oil.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 13
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189SHRINKING RETURNS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1940, Page 13
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