AUTOMOTIVE NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 37, 20 February 1930, Page 11

AUTOMOTIVE NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Progress is being made on Scutb

American Highways.

One hundred miles of concrete highway are now being built between Montevideo and Coloria. The highway now in process of construction will place Montevideo in direct communication with the Plata River at Colonia, from where a ferry service to Bueonos AiTes will make it possible to cut aeven ihouTs. from the present travel time bey tween the Argentine and Uruguayan

The highway is expected to be completed in thirty months at a cost of 4,500,000 dollars. It is understood that Brazilian engineers are planning a highway from Bio de Janeiro to Bolivia as a second step in opening up international travel through tiie countries of South America.

Denmark leads Europe in Fuel Stations,

Denmark holds first place in Europe with regard to the number of fuel stations in relation to registered motor vehicles. It has 5,700 stations and 106,----'OOO vehicles, making 18.4 to each station. Tiien follows France with.22.l vehicles to every.fuel station, .Switzerland with 22.9 and Germany with 23.3. Holland has 23.7 and England 27.6 registered vehicles to every station,

In all Germany, there' are 40,00 fuel refilling stations and 933)312 motor vehicles, France 50,000 and 1,107,000, England 70,000 and 1,866,312 automotive vehicles.

Dollar Volume of General Motors Sales

Increase.

Dollar volume of sales 6f General Motor products in the third quarter of 1929 reached 408,327,455, as compared wii>h 401,158,789 dollars in the eoxresponding quarter of 1928. This brought the volume of net sales for the first nine months of 1929 to 1,287,477,542 dollars as against 1,210,408,566 .dollars in the first three quarters of 1928.