NEW ZEALAND SECOND

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 12

NEW ZEALAND SECOND

WORLD MOTOR CENSUS

AMERICAN TRADE SURVEY

"Evening Post," 4th December. 3lr. Julian Foster, American Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, has received official information from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, of the world's motor-vehicle census as taken by the Department through : its Trade Commissioners throughout the •world. The date of the returns is Ist January, 1930. It is shown that the world's ownership of motor-vehicles passed the 35,000,000 mark in 1929. Keports covering 157 countries were examined, and the total was 35,127,398 cars and trucks, an increase of 3,092,826 for. the year, and the total is compared with that of 1922, when registrations reached 12,530,416. . At the beginning of 1930 there was one vehicle for every 55 persons in the world,, taking the world population at 1,949 millions. A year before the ration was one for every 61 persons. The order of some of the principal countries with one vehicle to less than 100 people is as follows: —

Other foreign countries range from one vehicle to over 100 persons, and.up to one to 2083 in India, and one to 12,258 in China; Russia has one to 6125 persons. The report shows that the percentages of American vehicles of all vehicles in various countries are in the following terms: —

For the whole world, as for 1930, of the total American-made vehicles registered, the percentages were as follow: Cars, 89.9 per cent.; buses, 62.53 per cent.; trucks, 81.59 per cent. ■ Outside the United States the corresponding percentages were -53.5, 49.2/ and .48.7.- ■ ■ In the United States alone registrations were" 26,653,450, or more than three times more than those registered in all foreign and non-contiguous countries. Second in total registrations was France, England third, Canada fourth.

Vehicles Country. per capita. United States 4.5 Canada and New Zealand S Australia 30 Clinnnpl Islands 17 .Kngland 30 Wales 30 Scotland 41 Northern Ireland 51 Trinidad and Tolago 66 Union of South Africa 67 British S.W. Africa 73 Irish Free State 79 Oi' ■••■ British countries, all over 100. Ui:.:T countries are as follow: Argentine 30 Prance 31 J/iixcmburg 33 Denmark 35 Uruguay 39 Sweden 45 Switzerland > 56 Belgium 57 Norway 67 Cuba ....: 72 Netherlands jj Panama Zone 79 Canary Islands 87 Germany' .' 99 Spain .....130 Italy • "3

Cars. Buses. Trucks. P.O. P.c. P.e. Australia 81 77 75 Argentine 97 85 95 New Zealand 78 60 SI England 11 — 3° Channel Islands 11 — — Northern Ireland ..10 5 20 Scotland 11 — 15 Wales 11 — lD Irish Free State .... 11 — 1° Union of South Africa 85 G5 90 Canada 100 100 100 United States .... 100 100 100 Prance 10 — 7 Germany 35 — oO