Production in Canada.
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Information circulatedby the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Canada, shows that 7,791 motor vehicles were produced in Canada during the month of October, this figure representing the lowest output, to date, for the present year. Lower production was reported for all models excepting lorries having a capacity of less than 1 ton and chassis
for commercial use, the latter having increased from 275 to 1,243.
For the ton months ended with October,. production totalled 160,374 vehicles, these having a sales value of
110,762,754 dollars. In this period 21,444 lorries, 16,796 chassis and 20 cabs or buses have been built. The first-named were divided as follow:— Under 1-ton capacity, 3.720; 1-tortners, 16,130; over 1-ton and under 5-tons capacity, 1,594.
Buying Guy Six-wheelers.
Guy 'Motors, Ltd., Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, advises us that it has just received its eleventh repeat order from the War Office for six-wheeled lorries with forward control. These vehicles Will carry 5 tons on ordinary road and 2 tons across country. Another interesting order has been received by the company from the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, this also being for six-Wheelers which are to run on charcoal gas. The machines will be used in Africa.
Speedometers for Buses.
At the December meeting of the Birkenhead. Town Council the chairman of the tramways committee was asked to consider the provision of speedometers on motorbuses. The plea was made that it was very unfair for a servant of the corporation to be summoned for alleged speeding when he had no means of checking the speed of -his bus. Alder: man Vaughan, chairman of the tramways committee, said speedometers had been tried on the buses, but they -had not yet attained the efficiency that was desire& Why this is so we do not know, for there are several well-known typos of Speedometer on the market which have proved their efficiency in various spheres of commercial use. Economical Rail Coaches.
Having fOund the Sentinel steam rail coach a useful means for meeting growing motorbus competition on various parts of its system the London and North Eastern Railway Co. is proposing to introduce this type of vehicle on several . branch lines in the Middlesbrough and Darlington neighbourhoods, -crhere road transport has very materially affected -the. revenue from short journeys. The Sentinel coach is already giving satisfactory results in the Newcastle and West Tyne districts.
Tees-side Authorities Buying More Buses.
Tees-side municipalities are at present taking steps materially to augment their motorbus fleets. Only a . short time ago the West Hartlepool Corporateen decided to purchase four 32-seater Bristol saloon buses, and now both the Middlesbrough and Stockton Corporations have resolved to purchase four additional machines. The new vehicles for Middleshroug,h will he used to aug,merit the service on in-town. routes Which were opened up a short time ago, whilst the purchases of the Stockton authorities are required for service acceleration in and outside the borough.
Single-deck Trolley-buses for Hastings ?'
The deputation from the Hastings Town Council which recently visited West Hartlepool, Bradford, Birmingham, Chesterfield and Wolverhampton to obtain first-hand information of the passenger-transport systems in these centres has reported in favour of single-deck vehicles for the trolley-bus system which is to be inaugurated in the town early in the New Year.