MOTORING IN BRITAIN
MORE CARS ON ROAD 17} P.C. RISE IN 1935 'LONDON, Feh. 1. That. 1935 was a good year lor the motor industry is amply proved in the Transport Ministry's census of road vehicles, issued yesterday. The number of' mechanically propelled road vehicles in use in. the quarter ended September 3jl Me peak period of the year, was 2.581:027; or 164.119 more than in the corresponding period of 1934. There was an even greater increase proportionately in the number of new vehicles registered during 1935. Tile-; total of 397.488 showed a rise of 59,446. | or. per cent, on 1934. Private cars, as usual, were chiefly responsible for the rise.* there being 168,953 more in use last September than a year earlier. "Baby" cars are still the most numerous. In the 8 h.p. class the total rose by 34 per cent to 354.968. while the \Z h.p. increased from 245.058 to 249,660, and the "tens" jumped to a total of 230.672. a rise of no less than. 39 per cent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 9
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171MOTORING IN BRITAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 9
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