Record Production Expected in America.
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IN the view of Mr. A. J. Brosseau, vice-president of the National Automobile Chamber: of Commerce of America, there is a strong possibility that a new production record will be established in 1928. • For the first eight months of this year the output of American factories has been higher than ever before, and it is only necessary to produce at the same rate during the last roar 'months of the current yearas in the corresponding periods of 1925 and 1926 to ensure a record.
The gains made this year are c32 chiefly attributed to a notable increase in fast, light lorries of a capacity of 2 tons and less. The largest increase is in the 2-ton class, 21,230 vehicles of this type having been produced during the first eight months of this year, as against 13,990 in the same period of 1927. The next largest gain is in, the 10-cwt. class, with the 1-ton and 15-cwt. categories following. Of the 377,954 lorries produced in the first eight months of this year, about 240,000, or more than half, were vehicles of 1-ton capacity.
Foreign countries have been absorbing lorries made in the United States and Canada at a record rate this year, 101,928 having been exported during the first eight months. This compares with 90,343 lorries exported during the first eight months of 1927. There is every indication that, if the export of lorries be continued in the last quarter at the levels prevailing in the previous years, 1928 will equal, if not surpass, the record total of 1927, when 127,706 lorries were shipped to countries overseas.