The rapid strides which commerial transportation has been making in China reveal the interesting fact that even unsettled political condi tions and a general import depression caused by the depreciation of silver have failed to effect to any extent the growing influx of motor vehicles into th This in turn can be considered as a definite indieaton that commerical motor transportation is destined to become one of the foremost factors in the economical and industrial develop: ment of China in the years to come, This was the opinion expressed by Mr. C. T. Coleman, Manager of the Truck and Bus Division of the Gene~ ral Motors Export Con who is at present on a business vist to Shang An engineer of high repute, Mr. Coleman is considered one of the foremost experts in the field of commercial motor transportation, For time he was in charge of the automotive department of the United States Postal Service, which operates a fleet of over 5,000 motor vehicles, Later on, having joined the General Motors Corporation, Mr. Coleman actively assisted a number lof American Railways in organizing their automotive service and placing, it on a sound and profitable basi In the first place, General Motors being the world's largest manufac turer of automobiles, now offers the widest venge of vehicles in every me of motor transportation—truly a car and truck for every purse and purpose. As a characteristic exam= ple of this, Mr. Coleman mentioned the General Motors Truck Com Corporation. This Company which was formed in 1925, now possesses, the largest and most modern commercial vehicle plant in the world, the output of which offers the tulle and most standardised line of com. mercial vehicles in the industry, And then too, in the new 6 eylind. jer Chevrolet Truck, with its ins creased power, speed and loading space, General Motors offers a most feconomeial motor unit covering wide range of haulage purposes.
Mr. Coleman pointed to the activity of General Motors in China—to its local stocks of ears and trucks that make immediate delivery possible, to its huge central depot of spare parts, to its Service School at Shanghai to which mechanics are sent from all parts of the country by Governmental bodies, fleet owners and dealers, to be trained in up-to-date service methods, and to the vast amount of educational literature published in the Chinese lan. guage for the benefit of Chinese lowners.
"And it is most encouraging to note" concluded Mr. Coleman, "that these effects of General Motors towards the popularization of motor transportation in China, have ceived a sympathetic understanding fon the part of the Chinese peopl as evidenced by the increasing num-her of large purchases of General Motors products, effected by Govert mental Institutions and private organizations in this country, and of which the recent purchase of 150 GMC. buses by the Shantung Provineial Government is a typical example,
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