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Union of South Africa Justifies Forward
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Policy
THE total value of imports from all
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of motor trucks, vans and buses, including chassis, parts and accessories, showed marked increases during 1936 and 1937, and figures for the first nine months of 1938 indicate that the increase is being well maintained. The actual values are £1,617,647 in 1936, £2,193,149 in 1937, and 21,526,284 during the .first nine months of 1938.
Approximately 70 per cent. of these values represent chassis. In 1937 the actual percentage was 86.2, the number of chassis imported being 10,200, valued at 21,454,757. As in previous years so in 1937 the U.S.A. obtained the largest share of the trade in chassis, namely 6,775, valued at 2779,080.
The corresponding shares of the United Kingdom were 741, valued at 2412,784, and of Canada 2,563, valued
at 2204,528. The average approximate 'value per single chassis is thus 2557 for the United Kingdom, £115 for the U.S.A. and £80 for Canada.
The total number, and value of complete motor trucks, vans and buses imported from all sources in 1937 were 2.374, representing 2479,072. The shares Of the U.S.A. were 1,995, valued at £272,407, averaging approximately 2136 per vehicle; of the United Kingdom 281, valued at 2191,434, averaging approximately 2684 per vehicle, and of Canada 53, valued at 28,030, aAieraging approximately £151 per vehicle.
Parts and accessories were valued at 2250,320 from all sources in 1937, of which the U.S.A. share was £116,036 and .the. . United Kingdom share £101,704.
It should be noted. that all values given in, this article in respect of the Union o South Africa are based either on the wholesale market prices in the countries of origin, including packing and cost of placing the goods on board ship, or o.n . the 'F.O.B. price to the importer, including agents or buying commission in excess of 5 per cent., whichever is the higher value.
The total number of new buses, lorries, trucks and vans licensed in the Union during the first nine months ot 1938 was 6,964, of which 2,793 were in Cape Province, 860 in Natal, 2,958 in Transvaal and 413 in the Orange Free State. The United Kingdom share of the 6,964, was 522.
In 1935 a National Road Board was established in the Union in order to c40 co-ordinate road policy in the different provinces and to declare which roads should be national roads to be maintained from funds voted by the Union Parliament. This National Road Board laid down what was originally a five years' programme of road construction