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Items of News Intended to Stimulate the Interest of British Makers in Overseas Markets.
America's Growing Commercial Vehicle Exports.
COMMENT has been made in refer ence to the increase in Canada's exports of commercial motors which is evident in the early months of 1929. We now learn that America has set up a record during March, when no fewer than 24,878 lorries, vans. buses and chassis, of a value of £2,725,002, were shipped from the United States, bringing up the total for the first three months of the year to 57.716 vehicles (£6,457,888) as contrasted with only 30,215 (£4,155,125) in the corresponding quarter of 1928. At the present time the Argentine, Australia. Brazil, the United Kingdom, Spain and Sweden are the principal markets for American vehicles. Over 75 per cent. (44,223) of the exported vehicles are intended for loads not exceeding 20 cwt., leaving Only 12,530 1-21-ton vehicles and but 963 intended for loads exceeding 2i tons. It may be added that the exports now represent about 32 per cent, of the total American production.
Goods Motors hi France.
WE are authoritatively informed that the number of taxed goods vehicles in France during the year 1928 was 330,683, of which 232,739 were less than nine years old. A year ago the respective figures were 305,587 and 235,819.
Six-cylinder Buses for Paris.
THE S.T.C.R.P., which runs the motorbuses in Paris, is reported to be preparing plans for a new type of motorbus for service in the outer districts of the French capital. The vehicles will be of the-four-wheeled type and will have six-cylindered engines; whilst adapted to carry 42 passengers, they will be somewhat smaller than the buses at present in use.
Poland as a Market for Tractors. ALTHOUGH Poland is the third largest farming country in Europe, exclusive of Russia, the mechanization of the industry has not proceeded far, labour being cheap and capital being scarce. There is, however, a small, but growing, demand for farm tractors. During last year tractors with an aggregate weight of 2,009 tons were imported, their value being approximately £183,425, as compared with 1,055 tons, valued at about £93,770 in 1927—a gain of nearly 100 per cent. In 1928 Germany furnished the largeSt share, supplying machines having an aggregate weight of 845 tons and a value of about £74,160. The United States was the next source of supply, the machines which it supplied weighing 681 tons and having a value of £64,528.
Motorbuses in Switzerland. FOLLOWING the example of Zurich and Berne, the tramway authorities of Lausanne are now introducing motorbuses, and have lately ordered a number of Saurer vehicles for service in the town.
Prospects for the Motor in Manchuria.
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sorbing 1,000,000 migrating persons per annum is certain to be a rising market for lorries and tractors. At the present time Manchuria has 25,000,000 acres under cultivation, and it is computed that only one-third of the arable land has yet come under the 'plough. One undertaking at Dairen states that It sold 18 tractors in 1926, 23 in 1927 and 50 last year. In 1928, too, the same concern sold 200 motor lorries. The production of soya beans alone now amounts to 5,500,000 tons per annum, and much of this produce has to be carried to the railways by lorry.
A German Concern Sells Lorries to Russia.
AMONG the orders recently secured by the Bussing Automobilwerke Gesellschaft, of Brunswick, Germany, are fifty 3-ton lorries for Russia, ten 5-ton lorries and 10 motorbuses for Spain, and 6 buses for Portugal.
Motorbus Matters in Ceylon.
MOTORBUS proprietors in the island of Ceylon are pressing for changes and concessions in the new Motor Ordin,mice, but Government declines to give way in several questions of considerable contention. The width of seat per passenger is limited to a minimum of 16 ins. in spite of great pressure for a reduction to 13i ins., and the regulation against overcrowding is upheld against criticism and protests from the Motor Vehicle Proprietors' Association.
Britain Gaining Ground in the Canaries.
LAST year the CanaryIslands im
ported 103 commercial vehicles, valued at approximately £18,900, from the United States, 24 of a total value of about £2,980 from Canada' and 67 commercial chassis (value £10,610) from the United Kingdom. As in previous years British lorry exports to the Canaries never reached these figures, it would appear that in this market a determined effort is being made to combat American competition.
On January let, 1928, there were 1,189 motor lorries and 229 buses in the group ; 65 per cent. and 60 per cent. respectively were of American origin. The British advance is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that It passenger-transport monopoly was given to some local capitalists in 1927, and many American chassis were bought.
More Buses for Use in Egypt. AMONGST the recent decisions made by the Egyptian Council of Ministers is one empowering the State Railway authorities to buy five Motor vehicle:3 for the transport of goods and three for passengers. These motors are to be used as an experiment in the provinces before putting in force a project to run 50 buses in places not having railway communications. It is said that the railways will run the buses between Cairo, the Barrage and Benhm a distance of about 25 miles.
Tractors in Brazil.
DURING the first 11 months of 1928
tractors to the value of £119,500 Were imparted -.by Brazil, against £85,100 during the whole of 1927. Numbers are not available, but comparative values show that about _half the machines were used in agriculture. The industrial tractors were mainly put to use in dockyards, factories and warehouses. Imports by countries are not available for 1928, but in 1927 the -United States sent 88 per cent, of the agricultural tractors, Germany beiag next with 8-per cent: In the industrial class Germany supplied . 75 per Cent and the United Kingdom 15 par cent.