HC Deb 06 November 1947 vol 443 cc223-4W
Mr. Turton

asked the President of the Board of Trade to state in detail the foreign countries to which rail locomotives and parts and carriages, wagons and trucks and parts were exported during the nine months ended 30th September, 1947, giving the weight and value of the respective exports.

Mr. H. Wilson

The foreign countries to which rail locomotives and parts and carriages, wagons and trucks and parts were exported during the nine months ended 30th September, 1947, were as follows:

Tons. £
Soviet Union 474 107,201
Finland 1,760 89,303
Norway 625 36,796
Denmark 2,422 133,230
Poland 4,790 412,879
Netherlands 1,001 108,055
Belgium 88 22,594
France 5,023 225,902
Switzerland 179 13,159
Portugal 381 38,726
Spain 78 15,603
Czechoslovakia 6,055 494,397
Yugoslavia 772 55,859
Greece 2,967 235,613
Turkey 1,867 146,065
Belgian Congo 466 37,170
Algeria 49 10,037
Tunis 301 12,027
Madagascar and Dependencies. 201 30,460
Angola 989 77,938
Portuguese East Africa 142 24,989
Egypt 10,301 675,168
Iraq 381 63,248
China 314 45,703
Peru 143 35,794
Chile 180 13,179
Brazil 10,379 846,699
Uruguay 290 26,276
Argentine Republic 4,771 442,962
Paraguay 170 12,193
All other countries 600 61,852
Total 58,159 4,551,077