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Items of News Intended to Stimulate the Interest of British Makers in Overseas Markets.
American Exports of Commercial , Motors.
IN 1928 the U.S.A. exported 138,782 commercial motor vehicles and chassis with a declared value of £18,264,290, as against 105,447 valued at 114,024,720 in 1927, and 66,880 valued at £9,435,221 in 1926. Over 75 per cent, of the vehicles exported in 1928 were of less than one-ton capacity. The four, countries receiving the largest shares of these shipments were Australia (17,305), Argentina (15,771), Brazil (14,306), and Great Britain (6,953).
—And Britain's Figures.
GREAT BRITAIN exported 1,437 commercial vehicles and chassis in 1928, with a total value of 1751,727, as against 1,734 units in 1927, with a value
of £1,092,518. In 1928 the United States of America exported approximately 96 commercial motors for every
one shipped by this country, the total exports representing about 24 times the value of Britain's exports. It will also be noticed that Britain's figures last year were considerably less than in 1927. India is taking the greatest share of this country's shipments,„ having received 276 units in 1927 and 205 in 3928.
Britain's Share of Ceylon Motor Market.
TEE following list of the motor vehicles registered in Ceylon as on December 31st, 1928, with their countries of origin, shows Britain's place among the, countries competing for the supply of motor vehicles to this British island :—Great Britain, 6,758; Canada, 2,348 • United States, 9,438; France, 984; Germany. 127; Italy, 836;. Belgium, 103; Switzerland, 3; Austria,
; other countries, 21—total, 20,623.
A German Agricultural Machinery
Show.
AN extensive farming exhibition is to be held in Hamburg from May 8th to 14th next, under the auspices of the Chambers of Agriculture of Kiel, Lubeck, Eutin and Hamburg. The various industries which cater for the 642 requirements of farmers are to be given an opportunity to display their latest machinery and appliances, including farm tractors. Full particulars of the show can be obtained from the Landwirtschaftskammer fur das Staatsgebiet Hamburg, 24, Schopenstehl, Hamburg, 1.
Progress of Swedish Makes.
THE oldest passenger-car works in Sweden are stated to be those of the Aktiebolaget Scania-Vabis, at Soedertaelje, which were founded in 1921. The works are still producing private cars, but the chief products are now largecapacity motorbuses and lorries. Most of the buses in use in Stockholm are of Scania-Vabis make, and the company's mail buses, constructed to overcome the exceedingly difficult conditions of operation in the snow areas in Norr
land are in particular favour. The Swedish Post Office authorities have already bought 80 buses of this type, as well as many lorries from the company, and have recently placed an order for 15 sixcylinder mail buses.
The company also produces certain special types of vehicle, including those built for
road-building operations, these incorporating hydraulic tipping gears and an automatic contrivance for spreading gravel. Certain new features will be found on models to he introduced by the company in the spring of this year.
Motorbuses in Cuba.
LA Socicdad la Cuba, which has lately acquired and amalgamated several small motorbus concerns in Havana, is replacing many of the old buses by modern vehicles, and is reported to have placed an order in the United States for a fleet of -100 Studebaker motorbus chassis. A Rapidly Growing Market.
SYRIAN registrations a year ago were put at 393 lorries and 90 buses. As the imports from North America during the first nine months of 1928 alone amounted to 394 units, commercialvehicle registrations in Syria must have doubled by the beginning of this year. Now comes the news that a network of motor roads, composed of two arterial roads running from north to south joined up at several points, is now being built. Syria possesses 5,000 miles of roads, yet only about a dozen British lorries have entered this market during the past four, years.
Hungary's Drastic Regulation.
THE Hungarian Government is re ported to have taken the somewhat drastic step to encourage the home motor industry of -issuing an orCi... forbidding all public authorities in the
cantry and all private concerns doing work for such authorities from purchasing foreign motor vehicles.
Motorbuses for Marseilles. , THE tramway company at Marseilles
bas lately decided to increase its fleet of motorbuses and has placed an order for a large number of vehicles with the Somas Co., of Saint-Onen.