The British Motor Trade at a Glance.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 54

The British Motor Trade at a Glance.

Below we give particulars relating to the number and value of imports and exports of motor cars and parts thereof for the first month of the years 1904-5-6. The increase for January of the present year is very great, both m imports and exports. The demand shows no diminution, but emphatically the reverse. Eight times the value of parts of cars are imported as compared with exports, whilst the re-exports of the foreign parts are only about one-fourteenth of the imports thereof. Still, whatever way we look at it, the prospects of rapid expansion of business are most encouraging, and show that the industry is well on its feet, and that British motor manufacturers are slowly gaming ground

Tabulated British Trading Results January of the las' of the Motor Cars and I r THREE YEARS. J ARTS THEREOF FOR IMPORTS. Month ended ist January. 1904 1905 1906 Cars — | Number 335 362 | 458 Value £102,866 £149,578 £175,270 Parts — 1 Value £17,906 £36,608 I £136,720 BRITISH AND IRISH EXPORTS. Month ended ist January 1904 1905 1906 I FOREIGN AND COLONIAL RE-EXPORTS. Month ended ist January 1904 190^ 1906 35 50 68 £9,223 £19 006 £2b,999 55 77 146 £25.166 £25,590 £43,759 £z,7U £9.5*2 £3 470 £7,480 £i 6,334 £1,011