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Sales Chances for Motors in China.
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A report recently issued by the Department of Overseas Trade on China makes it clear that the number of motor vehicles imported into the country year by year continues to grow, the total in 1926 being 4,499, as against 3,169 a year earlier, The development of motor traffic outside Shanghai and a few other ports having foreign municipalities makes slow progress, however, and the total number of motor vehicles in use— possibly between 15,000 and 20,000—is absurdly small in relation to the country and its huge population: This is largely due to the absence Of good roads and, although the subject has received mach attention of recent years, he total , mileage constructed is still relatively unimportant ' So far as the type of Vehicle most . suited to the market is concerned, the chief demand at present, both tin, ease of commercial vehicles and passenger cars, is for the cheaper models. .American makes are mostly in use, but the number of British vehicles imported into .China during recent years has shown a satisfactory increase. Although many bus services have been established in various parts of the country, the vehicles used on them, except • in the-case of the two companies oper
• ating in Shanghai; .consist, as a rule, of 1-ton commercial chassis. or secondhand car chassis, fitted with a wooden body of local manufacture.
Market Place Sales of Motors.
The markets committee of the Guildford. Corporation has given permissiou to Messrs. H. W. Noakes and Co. to hold. sales of second-hand motors on the first Saturday in, each month in the cattle market, subject to the payment of .£.2 and a toll of one shilling per
vehicle. • -Stockton Withholds Licences.
Stockton Town Council recently considered an application from the General County Omnibus Co., Ltd., of Birtley, for licences for 10 buses which the eAmpany'proposed to use for the 'purpose of givinz an hourly service between Stockton and .Newcastle,.; the fare for the return journey being 5s. The United 'Automobile Services, Ltd:, oppesed the application on the ground that the additional service was not required, as the company catered for ex-isting traffic between the two centres. It was said that if the new service was Put into operation buses would be running into Stockton every 71 minutes. -After diseusSion of the Matter. the corm
• cil decided not to grant the licences.
New Zealand Imports pecline.
The present year has witnessed a .notable falling off in the imports of commercial vehicles and chassis into New Zealand, the returns for the -six months ended with June last .showing a total Of only 1,232 vehicles, of a value of £181,699, as compared With 1,258 and £298,578 respectively in the corresponding half of 1926. Canada is the only country which supplied a larger number of vehicles, the Dominion having supplied 604 vehicles, as against 471 vehicles a year earlier. All other countries showed a decline -the United States from 503 to 498, Great Britain from 241 to 119, France from 28 to 4, and other countries from 15 to 7.
A Wide Range of Hydraulic Jacks., Messrs. Henry Miller and Co., Mileometer Works, Walmer Read, London,. W.11, has just issued a folder dealing with the ,range of Skylhi hydraulic jacks which it manufactures. The jack is available in a number of sizes and with different limits of lift. The folder contains details of each . type, together with its price.' Many important names are included in the list of
users contained in the folder. ,
Manchester's Latest Express Bus Scheme.
As we have already intimated in our columns, the Manchester Municipal authorities have already inaugurated a number of express bus services in the city and that they have further plans in this direction has recently been made known in an official statement made by the chief constable. In this it is stated that the watch committee has aPproved certain proposals of the tramways committee for the development of express motorbus services.
Such services are already in operation along the principal tramway routes within the city, but it has been recognized that city boundaries are not traffic boundaries, and negotiations were opened by the tramways corn mittee with all the adjoining borough authorities operating bus services in their own areas, with the object of inaugurating a system of inter-running. A number of authorities have given their support to the scheme.
The assent which the watch committee of the. Manchester Corporation has now given will enable the respec tive authorities to co-operate with the tramways committee and secure joint operation of bus services in each -.other's areas.
• With the Manchester municipal legislators giving constantly increasing attention to the extension of bus operations in and around the city, it is not surprising that doubts concerning the future of the trainways system have been expressed in some quarters.
The Irish Fares Problem.. _ The reduction in, the fares on the vehicles run between Belfast, Portrush and other places in North Antrim and -North Londonderry, by the Belfast Omnibus Co. haS been followed by a reduction of 40 per cent, in the ease of -single fares and 50 pee cent. in the case of return fares on the Northern • Counties (London, Midland and scotfish) Railway: