The British motor indi received from the Board of 100 per cent. allocation of steel for the present quoiter; that is to say, manufacturers are allotted all the steel they require under existing conditions, states the "Daily Telegraph" of July 30.
As the sale of new cars has been forbidden in this country since July 20, there is no home market except for motor-cycles, agricultural and commercial vehicles and for military orders. Export, however, is still being given all possible stimulus by the Export Council.
So far motor export has been doing extraordinarily well. For the first six months of the year we have exported 5,000 units a month, 80 per cent. of them cars. Markets in South America are developing satisfactorily, and even the United States have been taking a certain number of British ights."
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