Progress in First Year of Peace R EGISTRATIONS of new vehicles
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• in September last. compared with those in September; 1945, present a striking picture of the conversion from war to peace-time production by commercial-vehicle manufacturers in the first 12 months after the e,nd of the War with Japan. Excluding cars and motorcycles, registrations rose from 4,061 to 14.354 in a year.
Detailed analysis of last September's figures shows several interesting trends. All the new hackneys with more than 32 seats (totalling 179) were oilers. About 55 per cent, of all new hackneys registered were oil-engined.
Nearly four times as many " other " goods vehicles were available to British users in September, 1946, as in the comparable month of 1945. Because of the high proportion of light goods vehicles registered, the ratio of .oil to petrol engines is small. Nevertheless, compression-ignition units are finding increasing favour with operators of goods vehicles up to 3 tons unladen. Ninety of the oil-engined "other" goods vehicles did not exceed 3 tons unladen, and 301 of the total of 400 new oilers weighed under 5 tons unladen.