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Show LARGER EXPORT OF MOTOR CARS More Passenger Autos and Trucks Are Being Sent Across Seas. Decided Improvement la notlceablo In tho exports of passenger cars and motor trucks for October last as com-( com-( pared with the preceding month, ro-' ro-' ports Gordon Lee. chief of the automobile auto-mobile divlfon of the bureau of foreign for-eign and domestic commerce. Tho Increase In-crease in passenger cars exported amounted to 6 per cent In number and 4 per cent in value. In motor trucks, 26 per cent in number and 57 per cent in value. Export of motorcycles, on the other hand, declined in value al-j al-j moHt ono-fouith, thoso of airplanes nearly three-fourths. Tho value of total to-tal automotive exportu, Including alr-I alr-I planes and motorcyclea. Increased 8 I per oent In October, as compared w ith I September, and decreased 79 per cent us compared with October, 1D20. Exports of complete cars nlono wore as regards value, 8 per cent greater in October than In September; exports In chassis alone were 13 per cent smaller Tho total exports of passenger passen-ger cars for October were made up, as to number, oi 7 7 per cent complete ' srs and 23 per cent chassis; as to value, val-ue, 83 per cent wen complete cars and 17 por cent were chassis. A comparison compar-ison with October, 1U20 shows a decrease de-crease of 80 per cent in number of passenger cara exported and 87 per cent drop in value Tho unit valuo of passenffei car., exported during October, Octo-ber, 1921, decreased $433, or more than one-lbird m the unit value ui year ago. There wub also a decrease of $14 as compared with September, 1921. Exports of motor trucks mado a far bettei showing than those of possen-gei possen-gei care Exports of both complete cars and chasslfl increased not only in number, bul also In value. This Increase In-crease for complete cars In October, 1 c" - 1 compared with September, 192l! amounted to b pi r I snt in number and 6 per cent In value; tor chassis, the Increase waa per cent in number and 110 per c ent in value. It Im notice- aoie mai me increase in cnassis exported ex-ported grcatlj exceeds ihat of com-plete com-plete cars; this may be the result of high duths Imposed on bodies and tho relative cheapness of manufacturing manufactur-ing truck bodies, as compared with the high cost of duty and freight on their importation. Th lour Important morketa for p.is-senger p.is-senger cars, wted in order of number num-ber of cars imported from the United Suites are: Mexico. Australia. Canada, and the United Kingdom. These lire followed by the far eastern markets Japan. British South Africa and British Brit-ish India, respectlvelv, shipments in October to the four countries first named, amounted to 58 per cent In number, as compared with the total Ipment for ihe month, and 63 per cent in value; 27 per cent of the total went to .Mexico, 12 per cent to Australia; Aus-tralia; 10 per cent t.. Caned and 9 per eent to th 1'nited Kingdom. A considerable con-siderable tie, rea e oi shipments to japan ja-pan took place ni Ktober us compared compar-ed with September. The best market for high-priced trucks is Brazil, but for low-priced trucks Mexico leads, due, according to Mr. Lee to the heavy importation of low-priced chassis nnd second-hand army trucks. oo |