BRITISH BUSES FOR THE PAR EAST.
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Recent Deliveries From the Works of a Prominent Manufacturer.
THERE are many Thornycroft vehicles in use in all parts of the world, and of later years the company have supplied quite a number of chassis for passenger-carrying uses overseas. Within, the past few weeks they have
shipped three buses for service in the Far East, and a point of interest is that, although shipments to these markets have usually been in the form of chassis only—to which locally built bodies have been fitted—on' this particular occasion the vehicles were exportedin their final form.
We reproduce on the previous page a picture of the buses, one of which is a 30-seater of the one-man-operated type for the China Motor Bus Co., the second being a handsome 18-seater saloon bus for service in Hong-Kong, and the third a 28-seater trolley-bus, the body of which is mounted on a forward-control type chassis with Thomson-Houston electrical motor equipment ; this vehicle is for service in the Malay Peninsula. In the design and construction of these vehicles due consideration has been given to the fact that they will be operating under tropical conditions, and, with this object in mind, suitable air spaces have been embodied in the roofs. . John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., have their own representatives at Shanghai, Singapore and Calcutta, and it is largely through their united efforts that the use of Thornycroft motor vehicles is so rapidly extending in the Far East_ It is also pleasing to note that. the export of British motor vehicles to markets where foreign manufacturers secured a big hold during the war is steadily on the up-grade.