November's Registration Returns Analysed
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Tendencies that are Discernible from a Close Study of the Latest Figures Issued by the Ministry of Transport
THE monthly return issued by the Ministry of Transport, giving details of the registrations of new motor vehicles, shows that the number registered during November last was 27,740, as against 23,815 during November, 1933. Once again, both the goods and hackney-vehicle figures show advances, the• total of the former being 5,610 for November, 1934, as against 5.067a year earlier, and, of the latter, 455, as contrasted with 280.
A perusal of the goods-vehicle returns shows that the most important advance took place in the 2-2i-ton petrol class, the figure of 1,096 comparing with 871 in November, 1933. The registrations in the 14-2-ton class are being well maintained, although the figure (1,242) for November, 1934, was slightly lower than that for the corresponding month in 1933.
In the classes for vehicles not exceeding 12 cwt.. 12 cwt.-1 ton, 1-11 ton and 2/-3 ton. the changes were not marked, two showing falls and the others increases, the net result being an advance of 42 vehicles. The downward tendency in the 3-4-ton class continues, as it does also in the 4-5-ton class. The 147 vehicles registered in the former compare with 193 in 1933, and the 68 in the latter with 116 in 1933.
In the petrol classes above 5-tonners, there were only 13 registrations, as against 91 a year earlier, although it must not be forgotten that the 1933 figures include vehicles driven on coalgas, oil fuel, etc., whereas these are now recorded independently.
The growing popularity of the oiler is clearly indicated by the latest figures, and it is interesting to note that there were registrations in all classes, with the exception of the 8-9tonners. The chief ' returns were recorded in the categories for vehicles not exceeding 2itons, 3-4 tons and 4-5 tons, the returns being 37, 35 and 28 respectively. Included in the total for oilers are 12 vehicles licensed for drawing trailers.
In November, 1934, there were only two steam goods vehicles registered. B36 The figure of 27 for electrics compares with 24 a year earlier.
The total for goods vehicles includes 104 rigid six-wheelers and 45 of the articulated type, whilst seven eightwheelers were also registered.
Turning to the hackney-vehicle registrations, the total of 455 is split up into 331 petrol vehicles, 110 oilers and 14 trolleybuses. Of the first named, the registrations consisted mainly of taxicabs (250), and there were big falls in several categories. For instance, in the 26-32-seater class only five vehicles were registered, as against 42 in November, 1933, and in the 3240-stater class, six vehicles registered in November, 1934, compete with 26
a year earlier.. The return for doubledeckers is also lower' the • 41 registrations effected in the 48-56-seater class. comparing with 53 in November, 1933.
So far as oilers are concerned, there were 30 registrations in the 40-48seater group and 62iis the 48-56-seater class. A point of interest is that 14 oil-engined vehicles were registered in the 26-32-seater category. All but two of the trolleybuses comprised double-deckers-56-64-seaters.
During November, 1934,60 agricultural vans and lorries were registered, only one—a 11-2-tormer—being an. oiler. Under the heading of tractors, we find that 27 machines were registered, 18 of them being for general. haulage service and the others of an agricultural type.
The aggregate figures for the 11 months ended November, 1934, show that 62,594 goods vehicles, 5,057 hackney vehicles and 447 tractors were registered, the comparable returns for 1933 being 48,235, 3,696 and 330 respectively.