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Progress, Volume III, Issue 4, 1 February 1908, Page 136

The total number of motor vehicles of all S n iL cycles, which are licensed Sai? i ed Km ? dom is 119,618, of which 61,617 are pleasure cars, 4124 are commercial and heavy motors, and 83,877 are motor cycles These figures show that nearly 16,000 more pleasure cars were registered in 1907 than in 1906 There are altogether 205,606 driving licenses in operation ****** About 500 drivers of motor taximeter cabs in Pans went on strike recently. They complain that they are no longer able to make more than 8 to 10 francs per day. and are also dissatisfied with the rule rii!f m Pf n y according to which they are made responsible for accidents caused by them The £?13? 1 3£ ny °V dng < h f ? ab3 explain that the eduction in the .earnings of, drivers is due partly to the dead SffrT S' 3nd P . artly tO the O f ££S thfiot m"aS ber ° f WhiCh in Pa " S has —

The mileage run on the day was 129, and the method of calculation adopted is to multiply the weight of the car in tons by the number of miles and to divide the product by the number of gallons of petrol consumed. This gives the " ton miles " travelled by the car for each gallon of petrol.

D. Matson's 15 h.p. Talbot (Owner) E. F. J. Grigg's 20-22 h.p. Dennis (Owner) W. K. Macdonalds 15 h.p. Darracq (Owner) Adams Ltd.' 22 h.p. Minerva (A. Kerr) D. Croziers 30 h.p. Cadillac (Owner) Adams Ltd.'s 12-16 h.p. Talbot (H. T. Adams) Cooke.Howlison and Co's 7-9 h.p Stuart (Clarke) . . Dr. Neeley's 16 h.p. Reo (Owner) Skeates & Bockaert's 30-40 h.p. Darracq (E. Bockaert) J. S. Hawkes & Co.'s 20 h.p. Alldays(A. F. Collins).. Tons weight. 1.712 1.890 1.363 1.645 1.823 1.401 .862 1.117 2.020 1.C34 Tons Gals, miles per gal. 8.67 25.46 10.21 23 87 742 23.69 9.03 23.50 10 14 23.19 7.92 22.81 5.00 22.24 6.50 22 16 11.82 22 04 9.71 21.70