New Registrations Up in August
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riA REVIEW of the new-vehicle registrations for August, just issued by the Ministry of Transport, shows increases in all categories, as compared with the figures for July. The total number of 48-56-seater buses registered for the first time war 135, of which bnly one was fitted with a petrol engine. The comparable figure for August, 1945, was 165, and for July, 1946, 368.
Excluding private cars and motorcycles, a total of 13,877 vehicles was registered in August, of which 370 were hackneys, 9,464 goods vehicles and the remainder made up of agricultural engines, tractors, municipal machines and those exempt front taxation.
Of the goods vehicles, 601 were agricultural, 44 showmen's, 12 municipal machines and 8,807 other classes. The largest group in the last-named category was of an unladen weight of 12 cwt. to 1 ton, and the next highest total was 1,264 machines registered in the 2i-2i-ton unladen-weight class. Of the last-named, four were oilers. In the 9-10-ton class, only five new registrations were recorded, of which one vehicle was petrol-engined. There were no vehicles registered in the class for vehicles of over 10-ton unladen weight. Of all the goods vehicles, a total of 132 was electrically propelled.