INDO-CHINA AS A MARKET FOR BRITISH VEHICLES. •
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The Agence Economique de FindoChine has just published some information which may be of use to manufacturers who contemplate exporting motor vehicles to French Indo-China.
built chassis are greatly in favour, owing to the number of streams and shallow rivers which have to be forded, and the ground clearance should never be less than 30 cm. Motor vehicles must in no case weigh more than 2 tons per axle.
As stated in a recent article in this journal, when the commercial motor needs of Asia were dealt with, the heavy duty on all motor yebieles not of French origin need net really offer an
insurmountable object to British mannfactnrers, in view. of the proximity of Singapore to the colony and its suitability as a distributing centre.
French Indo-China possesses at the moment 74 public motor services, 42 lines being in Cochin China, 15 in Tonkin, eight in Annain, eight in Cambodia and one in Laos.
There are now 30,000 kiloms, of roads in the colony suitable for use by motor vehicles, 12,000 kiloins. of which -are quite good, and can be used all the year round, and the remainder for at least six months of the year, and in many 'Oases for longer periods.
There -were 4,700 motor vehides
registered in the country at the end of Jute last, but the number must now be conSiderably greater. The native population is said to be buying as many motor vehicles as the white residents.
Road development is progressing very rapidly in Cambodia and Cochin China. In Annam it is somewhat slower, but this is only on account of the mountainous nature of the country, which renders read-making difficult and expensive. The whole colony is exceedingly prosperous, and, needless to say, ,French motor manufacturers are well alive to this factor, and are pushing the export trade with a vigour which will require strong competition.