A rigid truck chassis and its body go together like....er, a horse and carriage. Yet no affair between a multinational truck manufacturer and a UK bodybuilder is ever going to develop into a marriage of equals. David Wilcox reports. Around three-quarters of the 55,000-odd trucks sold in the UK this year are imports - most of them built by the giants of the world's automotive manufacturing industry. About 20,000 of these vehicles are tractive units, but the remaining 35,000 need bodies. Enter the UK bodybuilding industry, with vital statistics that could hardly be more unlike those of vehicle manufacturing. The vast majority of these bodies are built in Britain by small businesses, many of which are still family-owned. Few relationships are more intimate than that between a truck chassis and its body. So how on earth do two such disparate manufacturing groups manage to hit it off so well?
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机译：坚固的卡车底盘及其主体像马和马车一样走到一起。然而，跨国卡车制造商与英国车身制造商之间的no昧关系永远不会发展成平等的婚姻。 David Wilcox报告。今年在英国销售的55,000多辆卡车中，约有四分之三是进口汽车-其中大多数是由世界汽车制造业的巨头制造的。这些车辆中约有20,000是牵引车，但其余35,000则需要尸体。进入英国的健身行业，其至关重要的统计数据与汽车制造业的统计数据几乎没有什么不同。这些机构中的绝大多数是由小型企业在英国建造的，其中许多仍然是家族企业。没有什么关系比卡车底盘与其车身之间的关系更为亲密。那么，这两个不同的制造集团到底如何成功地做到了呢？
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