Canadian Production.
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According to figures just issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics at Ottawa, Canada produced 179,054 motor vehicles in 1927. This output was 13 per cent. less than the record of 1926, which totalled 204,727 vehicles, and was the first decline for the past three years. The past year's output was made up of 137,290 private cars, 29,603 commercial vehicles and 12,161 chassis, the aggregate being valued at 115,004,228 dollars.
During 1927 24,858 1-ton commercial vehicles were built, 3,083 vehicles of 8S,831,668 dollars. The total Canadian registrations for 1927 of all motor vehicles numbered 945,672, an inerease of 108,878 vehicles over 1926.
State-owned Postal Buses.
Fifty new postal motorbus lines have been opened in Austria this year, raising the total number of these stateoperated services to 180. In addition, there are some 200 privately owned motorbus services running in various parts of the country and applications are frequently being received for concessions to operate services over new routes, An Opportunity for a Commercial Vehicle Salesman.
A well-known Lancashire company, which specializes in commercial vehicle sales and coachbuilding, requires the services of an energetic commercialvehicle salesman, aged between 25 and 30. The type of man wanted is one well acquainted with second-hand values, who has had good engineering experience, is of smart appearance and tactful. Applications, addressed "Salesman," care of the Editor of this journal, will be forwarded.
A Licence Transference.
The chief constable of Swansea has reported that the business of the Bishopston and Murton Motor Services, Ltd., has been transferred to the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., and hackney carriage licences held by the former company have been transferred.