MOTOR FACTS AND FIGURES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6

MOTOR FACTS AND FIGURES

26i MILLION CARS IN U.S.A. Interesting facts are available in the recently issued Automobile Statistical Report of the National Chamber of Commerce of New York. According to this authority, there are today, 7,800,000 miles of highways in the world. In U.S.A., over 24 per cent, of the drivers are women, but they are only in G per cent, of the motor accidents. All told, there are 34,876,837 motor vehicles in the world, of which 76 per cent., or 26,501,443, are running in the United States. England (excluding Scotland and Wales), up to the end of 1929, had registered 1,242,839 cars, and Canada had 1,168,188, which is about double the number of the 581,310 cars and trucks Australia is credited with. The report discloses the fact that U.S.A. has 46 motor manufacturing plants, and also 42 assembling plants. WORLD-WIDE PLANTS American interests are responsible for 66 assembling plants in various countries, apart from those in U.S.A., ten each being in Australia and Canada, six in England, five in Germany, four each in Belgium and Brazil, two each in the Argentine, Denmark, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay, and one each in Chile, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Java, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Poland and Spain.