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Possible Exhibition in Denmark.
THE attention of British makers of commercial vehicles is drawn to the movement, which is being supported by the Danish Union of Importers of British Goods, to organize an exhibition of British manufactures in Copenhagen early next spring.
Bus-route Progress in China.
THE opening of the Chang-sha-Cheng chow road in Hunan has reduced the time of travel between Hankow and Canton by 11 days. Motorbuses operated by the Hunan Provincial Motorbus Co. now carry through passengers from Chang-sha to I-chang, the remainder of the trip being covered by river boat and railway. Surfaced niotor roads are being constructed in several other parts of China, and in almost every case the opening of a road is immediately followed by the establishment of motorbus services.
Road Improvements in Spain.
IN the report on economic conditions foreign tourists, there is the inevitable result that road transport in the country, both as a feeder service for the railways and in competition with them, will develop. This means that the market, from the point of view of British makers of commercial chassis, will offer greater scope than it has offered in the -epast. A credit of 30 million pesetas for road construction in the year 1930-31 has been allocated.
During July, 2,771 motor vehicles and chassis of all kinds were exported from Britain, this figure comparing with 1,877 in June and 3,877 in July, 1929.
It is estimated that 2,627 motor vehicles of all kinds were sold in Turkey last year, and that 60 per cent. of these were commercial chassis to which local bodies were fitted.
Notwithstanding the increasing use of pneumatic tyres the imports of solid tyres into Belgium during the first six months of 1930 attained a value of £24,085, compared with £23,943 in the corresponding half of 1929. The tyres came mainly from Italy, Great Britain. and France.
India's Smaller Imports.
DISTTJRBANCES in India have had
a very upsetting effect on the trade in commercial motor vehicles. During the first three months of the current fiscal year (i.e., April to June last) only 424 complete vans, lorries and buses, and 1,821 commercial chassis were imported into the country, as compared with a total of 4,726 units in the corresponding period of 1929. The value of the imports shows in the aggregate a fall from £585,000 to only £310,000. Canada still heads the list, but the imports from the Dominion declined from 3,068 to 561 vehicles ; those from America rose from 1,492 to 1,616; imports from Britain dropped from 140 to 55 units,
The Latest Report on lrersia.
THE number of commercial vehicles imported into Persia has increased from 103 in 1925 to 1,788 in the 12 months, 1928 to 1929, but it is thought that the hire-purchase system has stimulated the demand beyond its economic limit, this being indicated by the extremely low rates charged for
passenger and freight conveyance.
Commercial motors are being used more and more on the secondary rod, for examp 1 e, in the outlying districts of eastern a n d south eastern Persia, and one factor accounting for the large amount of freight available is the very strenuous competition between the AngloPersian Oil Co., Ltd., and distributors of Russian petroleum products.