India's Vehicle Imports.
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His Majesty's Senior Trade Corn' missioner in India has forwarded to the Department of Overseas Trade a survey of the import trade of India during the six months covered by April to Septem
ber of this year. This shows that, owing to the n'apid spread of motorbus services in Calcutta and elsewhere, the total imports of motorbuses, lorries, etc., rose from sm, to the value of Rs.18 lalths, to 1,045, to the value of Rs.361 Iakhs. The number of vehicles imported from the United Kingdom rose from 43 to 170, whilst the total of United States shipments to India increased from 311 vehicles to 885. Canadian imports of the same description also showed a marked increase from 530 to 874 vehicles.
Canada's Vehicle Output.
Figures that have just been circulated by the High Commissioner for Canada show that in 1924 the 11 automobile factories in Canada produced 18,043 commercial vehicles, 98,245 passenger cars and 16,172 chassis, the aggregate selling value of the products being $88,240,418. The total output shows a decrease of 10 per cent. over the fignre for 1923. Raw materials costing $64,000,000 were used in connection with the manufacture of these vehicles.
A Traffic Census in Bexhill.
Bexhill Corporation has recently reported with regard to a traffic 'census taken on Class I roads • within the borough, and this shows that in a period of seven days 6,460 vehicles used Bornholm: Lane, 15,183 Hastings Road, 5,466 Wrestwood Road, and 21,847 Ninfield Road. The percentage 'of motor to horse vehicles on each of the roads was 96, 98, 93 and 91 respectively:
The Merits of the Motorbus.
The Motor Omnibus as a Means of Public Transport" was the. title of apaper recently read by Mr. W. B. Flint before the Luton Graduates of the Institution of -Automobile Engineers. TO show the increasing use and popularity of the motorbus, the author stated that, whereas in 1916 there were 168 undertakings possessing 332 vehicles, to-day there were 1,420 undertakings using 21,557 vehicles, the invested capi
tal amounting to nearly 128,000,000. He stressed the importance of the bus as being adaptable to local traffic needs, and referred to the ease with which services could be diverted when road repairs were being undertaken. He had much LI say concerning the relative merits of buses and trams for certain classes of work, and it was this point which formed the main theme of the discussion which followed.