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Facts Revealed by Road-vehicle Census
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DURING the quarter ended September 30, 1935, there were 2,581,027 licences current for mechanically propelled road vehicles, as compared with 2,416,908 licences in the corresponding period of 1934—an increase of 6.8 per cent. The number of goods vehicles in the total was 434,723, as contrasted with 413,320, the comparable returns for hackney vehicles being 85,547 and 85,129 respectively.
It will be seen that the number of goods vehicles increased by 21,403,or 5.2 per cent., the largest increase being in the 2-2i-tor class, whilst six-wheeled and eight-wheeled vehicles advanced by 1,164—approaching 10 per cent.
These figures, which are contained in a return recently issued by the Ministry of Tranwort, show that the proportion of goods vehicles of over two tons unladen weight fitted with pneumatic tyres increased from 88 per cent. in 1934 to 94 per cent. in 1935, The percentage increase in hackney vehicles was quite small, being only .5, but vehicles with a seating capacity above 26 increased by 2,443, whilst those with a smaller seating capacity were 2,025 fewer.
A summary is also embodied of the numbers of vehicles of each class registered for the first time during the 12 months ended September 30, 1935, comparable figures for the previous 12 months being given, and it is shown that the figure of 397,488 in the latest return is an increase of 59.446 over the previous year's total.
The return is entitled " Road Vehicles—Great Britain, No. 85A," and may be obtained for is. from H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2.