New Registrations Trebled in a Year
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THE swing from war to peace-time production is exemplified in the statistics of vehicles registered under the Roads Act, 1920, for the first time in July, 1946, compared with new registrations in July, 1945. Excluding cars and motorcycles, 13,110 vehiclesappeared on the roads in July of this year, against 4,503 a year earlier. The increase in the number of new goods vehicles is particularly striking.
No new troIleybuses were placed in service in July. Oilengined buses were nearly twice as numerous as petrol vehicles. Of the 230 new oilers, 91 were maximumcapacity single-deckers and 121 were double-deckers. Other" goods vehicles of 12-20-cwt. unladen weight numbered 2,277, and the 45-50-cwt. class ran second with 1,040 vehicles. Between them, these two classes accounted for more than a third of the total of new " other " goods vehicles. Of 318 new oil-engined goods vehicles. 75 were
• less than 3 tons in unladen weight.