MOTOR VEHICLES.
AMERICAN EXPORTS. LARGE INCREASE SHOWN. WASHINGTON, June 20. The Department of Commerce announced that the United States in 1925 exported 58,624 motor-lorries and omnibuses valued at 37,703,000 dollars, representing more than 100 per cent increase over 1924, compared with Canadian 1925 exports totalling 16,182 units, valued at 5,260,000 dollars, and British 1925 exports of 4164 Units, valued at 10,569 dollars. Australia, America’s leading market in 1924 and 1925, took 155 per cent more commercial vehicles in 1925 than in 1924. The department asserts that the lorry and bus meet Australia’s peculiar need for economical transport, requiring smaller capital expenditure and operation costs than railways Australia took 7549 units in 1925, compared with 2958 units in 1924. New Zealand also showed a largo gain in imports of American motor vehicles. —A. and N.Z. cable
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 4
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