17,582 NEW VEHICLES WERE REGISTERED IN MARCH I N March,
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registrations of new vehicles, apart from cars and motorcycles, numbered 17,582, compared with 15,905 in February, and brought the total for the first quarter of the year to 54,868.
Ministry of Transport statistics show that petrol engines still predominate in hackney vehicles havifig up to 32 seats, although in the larger buses, oilers registered for the first time in March outnumbered petrol vehicles by 846 to 19. In the goods field, the oil engine begins to come into its own in the 4i-5-ton unladen-weight category.
will be exchangeable for either fuel according to type of vehicle or whether run under trade licence, but "commercial " fuel must not be supplied to any private vehicle, even when being tested or running under trade licence. Only "commercial " petrol may be supplied against Z coupons not over-stamped, as already specified, When a vehicle running on eommercial petrol changes hands and the new owner will be using E coupons. all commercial fuel must be drained before delivery.
It should be noted that provincial and Metropolitan taxicabs will run on private fuel under T coupons.