WORLD ON WHEELS

NZ Truth, Issue 1305, 18 December 1930, Page 19

WORLD ON WHEELS

Motor Vehicle Tally Reaches Amazing Figures INTERESTING facts are available. in ■*■ the recently issued Automobile Statistical Report of the National Chamber of Commerce of New York. According to this authority there are to-day 7,800,000 miles of highways m the woi-ld. In U.S.A. over 24 per cent, of the drivers are women, but they are only m 6 per cent, of the motor accidents. All told, there are 34,876,837 motor vehicles m the world, of which 76 per cent., or 26,501,443 are running m the United States. England (excluding Scotland and Wales), up to the end of 1929, had registered .1,242,839 automobiles. * Canada had 1,168,188, about double the number of the 581,310 cars and trucks Australia is .credited with.