RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT INDICATED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. Signs of trade improvement in recent months are given in the freight receipts by the railway companies for July. Compared with July. 1928. there w*as an increase of about 3,700,000 tons, or 15.3 per cent., in rail-borne freight. Of this tonnage coal and coke accounted for 2,700,000 tons, representing an increase of 19.1 per cent. The passenger traffic for July also showed a large increase. The number of passenger “ - '■'**:; totalled 000,000, which is 7,000,000 mo. than in July las,.
The return also shows that in July last more than 34,000 new motor vehicles were registered in Britain. This is an increase of 5,000 on July, 1928.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 9
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117RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 9
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