MOTORING IN AUSTRALIA
PRIVATE CARS TO DISAPPEAR
(Recd. 9.35 p.m.) Melbourne, Feb. 17. Only about 12 per cent, of the commercial vans now on the road in Australia will be running by the end of the year, according to experts’ calculations based on tyre and spare parts expenditure. The Government has stated that private motorists, except in a few special categories, such as doctors, will get no more tyres. Private motorists will disappear from the road as tyres now in use wear out.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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