COMMERCIAL MOTORS IN U.K.
According to figures compiled by . the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in England, the total unladen weight of petrol goods-car-rying vehicles in Britain in 1930 was I ll,297,118cwt, as compared with j slightly more than 9,000,000cwt in 1927. The average carrying capacity of each vehicle was about 50cwt. The total seating capacity of all the motor hackneys on the road in 1930 was — 669,496, the average seating capacity of a vehicle being 16. New vehicles placed on the road in 1930, however, had a considerably greater seating capacity, probably due to the increased popularity of double-deek-er and large types of motor buses, the average capacity being 25. The society estimates that 78.5 per cent. of goods vehicles are in use all the year round, and that the average annual mileage is 16,000 at 14 miles to the gallon of fuel. From other figures, it is calculated that motor vehicles carried about 100 more passengers a month than were carried by the railways during September, and that the railways work netlrly four times the ton miles worked by road transport.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 22, 18 September 1931, Page 6
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