Over 90,000 Motors in Ireland
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A CCORDING to official returns /—Lissued by the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland Governments, the total number of motor vehicles in use during the autumn of last year was 90,125. At the end of November, 1934, there were 7,249 goods vehicles, 987 hackney cars (seating six persons or fewer) and 559 hackney vehicles, seating more than six passengers, licensed in Northern Ireland.
On August 101 1934, licences were current for 4,624 hackney vehicles, 8,254 good vehicles, and 658 road locomotives and tractors, whilst about 900 commercial vehicles were exempt in the Irish Free State. Of the total of hackney vehicles registered, 3,350 were of the small type, and 817 seated more than six persons. In the latter classification are included 810 buses and coaches and seven vehicles of the char.4-banes type.
Of the goods vehicles registered, 8,206 were internal-combustion-engined, 36 steam-driven and 12 electrically propelled. Of the total num-, ber of internal-combustion-engined and steam goods vehicles licensed, 7,119 were owned by ancillary users, and the remaining 2,123 machines were operated by hauliers. The most popular type appears to be the 1-2-ton internal-combustion-engined vehicle, of which 1,309 were licensed by carriers and 3,315 by '
ancillary users. There were 17 internal-combustion-engined vehicles exceeding 6 tons unladen weight and eight steamers exceeding 7 tons unladen weight.
Of the total 658 road locomotives and tractors for which licences were current last August, 185 were road locomotives used for general haulage, 294 comprised ploughing engines and tractors for agricultural and other work, 31 were tractors used solely for agricultural purposes and 148 were tractors employed for other purposes.
In the class for exempt vehicles are included 115 ambulances, 462 Government-owned vehicles, 224 road-rollers, 40 fire appliances, 48 refuse collectors, 11 sweepers and a lifeboat tractor.