TRANSPORT IN THE BALKANS.
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OF the Balkan countries, Roumania. is the most -developed in so far as the use of motor vehicles is concerned, hutthere is a fair Market throughout the peninsula, which is expected to develop as exchange .conditions become more normal. Tho purchase of a vehicle is not decided so much by its country of origin as by its price, which is advantageous to certain countries in view of the rate of e xchange.
In Roumania, the abnormal transportation system of the peninsula. should aid 018. in creating a good market for motor lorries, although the demand is likely to he small for a year or two because of the sale of surplus army lorries, the high price of petrol, and the state of the roads. The hest roads are to be found in Bulgaria and Greece.
The sale of light delivery vane has not been exploited in any part of the peninsula, although 3-ton lorries, and those of larger capacity, are the size Of vehicle that will pmbably find the readiest sale. There is no automobile industry in Bulgaria, and comparatively few vehicles have been imported; in fact, the total number of motor vehicles in use does not exceed 250, of which only about 50 are motor lorries.
The sale of vehicles in Bulgaria is governed by their price, a condition that has become intensified by the present low exchange value of Bulgarian currency, in which direction the low exchange rate of the Italian lira has given the Italians an advantage which they have been quick to7seize.