One-third Increase In Goods Vehicle Fleet

1st September 1961, Page 33

1st September 1961

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Page 33, 1st September 1961 — One-third Increase In Goods Vehicle Fleet

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THE number of goods vehicles on the road increased by 32 per cent. between 1956 and 1960. the Ministry of Transport announced last week. Motor traffic, as a whole, increased by more than a third during the same period. This information has been gleaned from annual traffic censuses. The 1960 census, which showed the latest increase in goods vehicles, also showed a 9 per cent. decrease in buses and coaches. It has been estimated that 835m. vehicle miles were travelled during the week the census was taken, last year.

Forty-three per cent. of the total was on trunk roads and 48 per cent, on urban roads. On weekdays. 26 per cent. of the total

movements was goods vehicles: on Sundays it was only 9 per cent, of the total movements.

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