, Registrations Nearly 300 Per Cent. Up
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D EGISTRATIONS of new mechanical vehicles under the
‘Roads Act, 1920, were more than five times greater in June of this year than in June, 1945. Last June, 28,109 vehicles of all types were registered for the first time, against 5,189 a year earlier. Excluding cars and motorcycles, but including exempt vehicles, the comparable figures were 13,000 and 4,629. Greatly increased registrations of goods vehicles (other than those used for agricultural, showmen's and local authorities' duties) and of exempt vehicles (mainly Government-owned), account principally for the rise from 4.629 to 13,000.
Petrol engines continue to be more popular for buses with seats up to 32, whereas oil units are generally favoured for maximum-capacity single-deckers and double-deckers. Although registrations of passenger vehicles as a whole rose from 226 in June, 1945, to 301 in June of this year, only 92 new double-deckers appeared last June, against 158 in June, 1945. Trolleybus registrations were negligible. On the goods-vehicle side, registrations of 12-20-cwt. models, at 1,702, were more than twice as numerous as those in the next largest class-45-50-cwt.-7-at 840. Registrations of vehicles weighing up to 2i tons unladen, totalling 4,611, represented about two-thirds of the grand total.