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BRITISH MOTOR TRAFFIC GROWS AMAZINGLY bicycles still popular , lustration and N.Z. Press Association) need. 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. •'Ministry ot Transport records show an astonishing growth in the use ol motors, both personal and --oods. traffic throughout Britain, proving the use of motor-cars to have multiplied fourfold since 1925, while mods traffic has doubled,” says the -Daily News.” One main road in the neighbourhood of London is carrying nearly 15,000,000 tons of traffic a year, which is unprecedented throughout the world, while ,he Manchester-Liverpool Road carries 14,000,000 tons, and the East London exit 12,000,000 tons. It is also revealed that goods traffic is making longer and more frequent journeys, especially at night time. Details show that trams have declined. and that horses are dying out. Push bicycles are still stupendously used.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 11
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