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Items of News Intended to Stimulate the Interest of British Makers in Overseas Markets.
Visit of Trade Commissioner from Vancouver.
rr1HE Department of Overseas Trade
announces that Mr. A. E. Pollard, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner at Vancouver, is now in this country and will he in attendance at the offices of the department from September 16th to September 27th. He will subsequently visit a number of commercial centres in the provinces.
Applications for interviews in London should be made at once to the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1., quoting the reference 13812/1/29.
The Trade Fair in Buenos Aires.
SIR HERBERT GIBSON, President of the British Chamber of Commerce in the Argentine Republic, expects good results from the British Empire Trade Exhibition which is to be held in Buenos Aires from February 28th to April 11th, 1931, and at`which it is hoped "to show Argentina• the whole range of British products." Road transport is to be well represented and there should be a good chance to develop materially the use of British commercial motors.
Sir Herbert is anxious that important members of manufacturing companies should personally go out to the Argentine for the Exhibition. Particulars may be had from the Mannger, 5, Parliament Mansions, Orchard Street, London, S.W.1, Swedish Production.
ACCORDING to a report from Stock
holm there are only three concerns in Sweden building commercial motors. The most important is said to be the Scania-Vabis Co.' of Sodertalje, which last year turned out about 70 fourcylinder and six-cylinder heavy lorries and 180 bus chassis. The Tidaholm Co., of Tislaholm, manufactured 110 six
cylinder bus chassis and 40 heavy lorries, whilst the output of the Voloo Co. included 500 light 'van chassis.
Imports into Sweden.
A RETURN just to bald shows that
1.090 motor vans and lorries valued at 1143,950 were imported into Sweden during the six months ended June 30th, as compared with only 801 (1137,330) in gm corresponding half of 1928. As will be gathered from the Egures, the vehicles were mainly of the light, low priced variety.
Government Road Services in French West Africa.
IN certain regions of French West. Africa road-motor services for both passengers and merchandise have been started by local governmental administrations. The most important is the service t from Save to'the Niger via Parakou and Kandi. A service has also been started in Upper Volta. In Guinea two lines are in operation betweee Babola and Faranah and betweon Mamou and Labe. In addition there is a number of private concerns running passenger and goods-transport services.
Road Building in Sierra Leone.
SPEAKING at the recent dinner in London of the African Society, Sir Joseph Byrne, Governor of Sierra Leone, stated that in 1926 only 224 miles of motor roads existed in the whole Protectorate of Sierra Leone, but he hoped that by 1931 there would be 900 :miles of such roads, properly bridged and capable of carrying motor lorries all the year round. He hoped to be able to provide in this year's estimates for what, he trusted, would be the first of several -travelling motor dispensaries. Thus the motor vehicle will fulfil a most vital function in assisting the protection of health.
Progress of Czecho-Slovakian Manufacturers.
THE numbers Of commercial motors in use in Czecho-Slovakia in 1922, 1926 and February, 1928, were respectively 1,932, 6,400 and 10,100, the numbers of passenger motors being correspondingly 126, 676 had 1,377. Of the total of 59,509 motor vehicles in February last year 42 per cent. were made in CzechoSlovakia. The indigenous motor industry is said to be progressing rapidly. The Skoda concern, which produced 1,500 motor chassis in 1925, manufactured nearly 5,000 in 1928. The Praga Co. made 400 chassis in 1922 and no fewer than 5,800 last year, and hopes to produce 10,000 chassis in 1930.
Coach Routes in Austria.
NO fewer than 212 motor-coach ser vices are this year being run in different parts of the country by the Austrian postal authorities, as compared with only 174 in 1928.' In addition the state railway authorities are running 14 services, and it is stated that 524 services are being operated by private concerns.
Light Lorries for Saint Helena.
MOTOR vehicles have hitherto been prohibited in Saint Helena. The law, however, has lately been repealed and the new regulations for motor traffic which are now under consideration will, it is reported, permit the introduction on the island of light commercial motors.
Imports of. Straits Settlements.
THE imperial trade correspondent at Singapore reports that 2,749 motorcars and 988 commercial motors were imported into Singapore, Penang and Port Swettenham during the .first six months of 1929.
Taxicabs in Colombia.
A NEW taxicab service has lately been
started in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, a fleet of 25 American vehicles having been put on the vrad. It is to be hoped that British chassis makers will be able to sell cabs in this market.
Petrol Substitutes in Switzerland.
A MUTING was recently held in
Berne of representatives of municipal and cantonal authorities owning forests, of chemical and gas works, and of motor-vehicle manufacturers to consider the question of finding in the country a substitute for petrol in order to render the country less dependent on imported -motor fuel. It was considered that -a suitable fuel ought to be obtainable from the timber and tar-oil supplies of the country, and, with the object of going more deeply into the subject, it was decided to form a Swiss association for the study of alternative motor fuels.