Vehicle-registration Figures and What They Indicate.
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Air ANY interesting facts come' to light when -1-Vla. comparison is made between commercialvehicle registrations vf or the six months to March, 1930, and those. for the corresponding period ended March this year.
Amongst goods vehicles there is a diminution of some 900 in the category 12 cwt. to 1 ton, this representing, roughly, 15 per cent. There is also a remarkable drop of 4,000 in the category, 1 ton to 30 cwt., equalling 40 per cent. This, however, is offset by an increase of over 2,000 in 11. to 2-tonners—approxiniately 33 per cent.—and an addition of 900, or 55 Per cent., in vehicles weighing, Unladen, between 2 tons and 3 tons. The popularity of the 4-5-tonner has waned to the -extent of 150 machines in favour of the vehicle of over 5 tons, the number of which increased by nearly 300, or about 90 per cent. , Considering the total new goods-vehicle registrations for the periods in question, this year shows a reduction of over 1,200.
Amongst passenger vehicles there was a big drop of nearly 50 per cent. in vehicles carrying 8 to 14 persons. The 20-26-seater shows a loss of 30 per cent., and the 40-48-seater 25 per cent. The 48-56-seater, in its capacity as a most efficient competitor of the tram, made a striking advance from 400 to nearly 1,100, or an addition of approximately 175 per cent.
The total new passenger-vehicle registrations for the six months, however, rose by only 70.