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25th September 1928
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THE Register of the Motor Trade, which is issued annually by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and for which supplements are issued at closer intervals, is one of the most invaluable works of reference, and now there reaches us the latest edition of the Colonial Section, which contains over a hundred pages of closely printed directory of the motor trade in Australia, British Malaya, Ceylon, Egypt, the Irish Free State, New Zealand, Nigeria and South Africa. The trade directory for New South Wales fills no fewer than 16 pages,. that of Victoria 213pages, of New Zealand 19 pages and of South Africa 18 pages.

THE list of the exhibitors in the commercial vehicle section of the Scottish Motor Exhibition to be held at Glasgow in November is now before us. The section appears to consist of 31 stands, apart, of course, from the accessories, components end supplies. The whole of the principal manufacturers are either showing direct or through their agents and, without doubt, more interest will centre B18 in the Scottish Show this year because there is no London Exhibition for which new products can be held back.

THERE is a great deal of sense in the article

which Mr. Shrapnell-Smith recently contributed to Answers dealing with the position and attitude of the railways in regard to and towards road transport, and it was as well that such an article should reach a large section of the reading public through such a medium. Giving the public the right aspect of the situation can only be to the benefit of road transport. The writer of the article sets out a goodly list of the things the railways will not do. They will not pull up the branch lines and the heavy traffic which those lines normally carry is not wanted on rural roads. They will not convert the thinly trafficked railways into roads because the railway line and the existing roads are usually on different levels, making it difficult to link .them together. They will not order a lot of new road vehicles as they do not want to divert traffic to the roads, but rather to keep all but the urgent consignments on rail. Nor will they be likely to engage in a fight to the death with existing road transport undertakings, but rather, will seek to make mutually profitable arrangements with them.

The railways may be "under the weather," but there is no need for the pessimistic view that the recent decline in the fortunes of our railways is likely to be permanent, and there are big possibilities of joint working with road interests.

THE railway statistics for the month of June

recently published were (as. we suggested in our remarks concerning the figures for the month of May) of little use for the purposes of comparison, because Whitsun fell into May in 1928 and into June in 1927. However, bearing this in mind, there was a deere,ase of nearly a million and a half of passenger journeys or 1.4 per cent, as compared with June, 1927. The receipts showed a decrease of £582,829 or 9.5 per cent. The month of May (as we stated in our issue for August 21st) had shown an increase of 9,3. per cent. (over 6i million journeys) in the passenger journeys undertaken awl of 17.2 per cent, in receipts.

However, whilst the month of May had shown, as was to be expected, a fall of 10.7 per cent. (3,672,000 tons) of freight conveyed and of 10 per cent. (£964,000) in receipts, the month of June shows a further fall of 5.2 per cent. (1,375,374 tons) and of 6.3 per cent. (£565,265) in receipts. The freight train miles, on the other hand,. only showed a decrease of 0.6 per cent., showing again that the railways' chief loss is in the direction of the short WHEN, recently, we were describing the Metro, politan A.C.F. coach, an American product which has no chassis, in the usual acceptance of the term, but has a strong body construction, the cross members of which carry the axles and the power unit, we remarked that we were not able to give the weight of the complete coach, as the information was not included in the dossier connected with the vehicle sent us by our correspondent. The information is now available, however, and it appears that the complete coach weighs 18,250 lb. (8 tons 3 cwt.), or 485 lb. per seated passenger and 182 lb. per passenger when the bus has its foil load of seated passengers and " standees." The L.G.O.C. LS bus complete, Seating 70 passengers and having a six-wheel chassis, weighs 7 tons 7 cwt., or a little over 235 lb. per seated passenger. As only five passengers are allowed to stand additional to those seated in a London bus, the weight per passenger, including " standees" of the LS bus, is 219 lb.


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