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Title:               Automobile Production, Trucks and Truck Tractors for United States
Series ID:           M0144BUSM608NNBR
Source:              National Bureau of Economic Research
Release:             NBER Macrohistory Database (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Monthly
Units:               Thousands of Trucks And Truck Tractors
Date Range:          1940-01-01 to 1947-03-01
Last Updated:        2012-08-15 3:51 PM CDT
Notes:               Series Is Presented Here As Three Variables--(1)--Original Data,
                     1913-1942 (2)--Original Data, 1940-1947 (3)--Original Data, 1940-1964.
                     Data Represent Actual Production Rather Than Factory Sales, As Do All
                     Pre-War Data. Since March 1942 Production Of Trucks Was Limited To
                     Military Orders Except For Specific Exemptions Granted Occasionally To
                     Fill Essential Needs (See Facts For Industry, February 16, 1944). The
                     Data For 1940 And 1941 Are Not Directly Comparable To Later Data, But
                     The Correspondance Is Close; This Refers Only To The Breakdown Of
                     Trucks Into Light, Medium, And Heavy, For Which Weight Specifications
                     Changed In 1942. The Total Was Not Affected. Source: Wpb, Facts For
                     Industry.
                     
                     This NBER data series m01144b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 1
                     at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter01.html.
                     
                     NBER Indicator: m01144b

DATE        VALUE
1940-01-01   68.2
1940-02-01   63.6
1940-03-01   68.9
1940-04-01   66.9
1940-05-01   61.7
1940-06-01   57.7
1940-07-01   61.3
1940-08-01   26.0
1940-09-01   43.2
1940-10-01   74.2
1940-11-01   77.1
1940-12-01   81.5
1941-01-01   87.6
1941-02-01   88.7
1941-03-01   93.0
1941-04-01   81.5
1941-05-01   99.6
1941-06-01   96.8
1941-07-01   96.7
1941-08-01   64.9
1941-09-01   59.4
1941-10-01   85.7
1941-11-01   94.3
1941-12-01   94.1
1942-01-01   92.3
1942-02-01   76.4
1942-03-01   88.6
1942-04-01   63.3
1942-05-01   60.1
1942-06-01   72.9
1942-07-01   63.0
1942-08-01   59.2
1942-09-01   59.3
1942-10-01   56.3
1942-11-01   51.2
1942-12-01   54.3
1943-01-01   49.4
1943-02-01   47.3
1943-03-01   55.9
1943-04-01   56.1
1943-05-01   55.2
1943-06-01   56.5
1943-07-01   60.3
1943-08-01   61.3
1943-09-01   57.4
1943-10-01   60.0
1943-11-01   57.0
1943-12-01   59.3
1944-01-01   58.6
1944-02-01   55.7
1944-03-01   56.4
1944-04-01   55.7
1944-05-01   56.9
1944-06-01   61.2
1944-07-01   61.5
1944-08-01   68.5
1944-09-01   65.0
1944-10-01   64.1
1944-11-01   69.0
1944-12-01   70.7
1945-01-01   67.4
1945-02-01   64.5
1945-03-01   75.1
1945-04-01   67.6
1945-05-01   71.3
1945-06-01   66.5
1945-07-01   54.6
1945-08-01   44.8
1945-09-01   31.6
1945-10-01   42.2
1945-11-01   53.6
1945-12-01   29.5
1946-01-01   54.9
1946-02-01   28.7
1946-03-01   39.3
1946-04-01   81.1
1946-05-01   74.6
1946-06-01   58.7
1946-07-01   93.5
1946-08-01  105.5
1946-09-01   92.0
1946-10-01  110.0
1946-11-01  100.6
1946-12-01  101.5
1947-01-01  102.7
1947-02-01  114.9
1947-03-01  117.2