More Goods Vehicles : Fewer Hackneys
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THERE was not a great rise in the total of goods vehicles in the 12 months up to the end of the third quarter of 1958, and the number of hackneys fell. At September 30 last year there were 1,268,498 goods vehicles and 97,005 hackneys, compared with 1,215,480 and 98.818 respectively on the same date in 1957, changes of plus 53,018 and minus 1,8 I 3.
Analysis by unladen weight of the 1958 total of goods vehicles, with the previous year's figures in parentheses, is as follows: under I ton, 520,460 (495,968); 1-2 tons, 259,214 (239,254); 2-3 tons, 309.447 1326.2l7); over 3 tons, 179,377 054,041).
The hackney vehicles were comprised as follows: up to eight seals, 17,064 (18.648): over eight seats, 78,616(78.558); trams, 1.325 (1,612): It will be noted that there was a reduction in the number of vehicles in the 2-3-ton unladen weight group, probably reflecting the abolition of the 20-m.p.h. limit, whilst the fall in the total of hackneys was in the classes for small vehicles and trams.
The number of haulage tractors fell from 5.734 to 5,691. whilst exempt vehicles rose from 49,133 to 50,247. The total of all kinds of road vehicles climbed from 7,427.101 to 7,903,638.