An important and interesting feature of British industries at the Present time is that of the method and progress of converting war industries into those of a formally peaceable world. This remark applies more particularly to the engineering and mechanical transport trades, greatly expanded with Government assistance during the war in order to meet immense needs, and now available with full staffs and finer and better equipment, for peace time production on a very large scale. Motor transport proved itself to be of supreme value in the war, and bids fair to make notable progress in future industrial development, and it is therefore a matter for congratulation to find that British manufacturers are fully alive to possibilities and are making plans to meet the needs of the time, both in design and output.
Ispia AND Beyonp, Sir Raymond Dennis. x.3.z., ce-founder and joint managing director of Messrs. Dennis Bros. Ld., of Guildford, is now in Shang. hai in the course of a world tour he is making on behalf of his firm with a view to studying motor trans-Port developments and needs, and on Thursday in conversation' with representative of the "North China Daily News" gave some interesting particulars on tae sub. ject. His visits to India, "Ceylon, Burma, the Straits Settlements and Java have afforded ample ground for the belief that motor transport is rapidly becoming a valuable adjunct to the industries of the East, and that great expansion is to be anticipated.
Shanghai is not the only place looking to the motor Jerry as a means of solving traffic problems. Bombay is cited as an instance where the lorry has been used with Breat success in this direction, at no prohibitive cost in comparison with native labour. The slow and cumbersome bullock wagon which has so congested the roads is being rapidly displaced by the speedy and economic motor lorry. The success which has already attended experiments of a similar kind in Shanghai suggests that the acute traffic problem may similarly be dealt with here.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.