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RECORD WORLD TOTAL CARS, TRUCKS; BUSES IN OPERATION, CENSUS SAYS
A now record total of 62,463, 794 cars, trucks and buses in operation in 147 countries and tórritórios of Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Western Hemisphoro is racorded by the 1950 World Motor Census. Each of these five major areas established
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seporäte new high mark; all but Asia have now more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, and Asia is within striking distance of that level.
Overall, the increase in a yent Occants ... 101.931 was. 4,100,000 velilcies or 7.1 per America cent, not quite so wide a gain as was attained in the years. covered by 1949 or 1048 World Motor Consus reports, but far more than In any 12 months period before the war's beginning in 1930.
Vehicles Increase Percentage
212,412 25.0 178,327 23.8
Africa
Asla Europe
870,080
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Vauxhall expansion
Last year the Vauxhall.com- pany produced 84,167 cars and trucks, an increase of 9,591 over the previous year, with exactly the same number of workers.
This is attributed to increased production effleleney by the em- ployee Exports claimed 57,831 of the total.
During the year work began on
10 a 10 million project of modern- inution
and expansion, and re- cently the company extended an Invitation to view the progress made with the first stage of the programine, which IS being
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The ultimate Intention is to provide for the replacement of a considerable part of the present plant, which in its older sections dutes from 1987 at Luton, with the most modern and efficient protluction equipment available, and the re-laying out of all shops for improved production flow, less worker fatigue working conditions.
and better
Visitors saw a new building. already substantially in being, nearly a third of a mile long and with a productive floor, space of 852,000 sq ft
This will increase the area of the Vauxhall factory by a third. Construction should be complet- ed by mid-June and production in the new plaut is expected to start in August.
Building of a factory of this vast size is naturally an under- taking of the first magnitude.
carved
jexcluding U.S.
454,080 13.1 United States 2,419,800 0.0
Excluding the United States. the rise in operation for the year was 1,725,930 vehicles, 0.0 per cent, to the amazing record of 10,034,589 units, a wider gain than reported in the 1840 World Motor Census, which was just over cight per cent.
More information was available for the 1950 World Motor Census than at any time since before the war; reports for this 20th in the series of annual compilations came flooding In by air mall and cabic.
Production tops all. marks
Additional automotive produc- tion is tractors. A few figures show the scope of this Indus- iry. Great Britain bulli 90,411 farm tractors, France a reported 20,000 and the United States out- put is estimated at about 600,000. Elsewhere than the United States, operation of about 1,000,000 farm tractors has been
far,
In automobiles, the world operation rise was half the pro- duction total because increasing numbers of vehicles were funket.
over age, wornout This was true in 1948 also, but for several years before that, more automo- biles were repaired and returnbu to the reads than were built new. Automobiles are still very old. Many of the countries reporting noted average uges of 10 years
and more; many
last up to 25 years. This is one reason for heavy replacement in 1948, and should be truc again in
1950,
More important facts coming out of the 1950 World Motor Cen-
Outside the United States, the percentage is, as usual, even more striking 41 per cent of all vehicles, are trucks and bizвos, still excluding cars used in any of the ways outlined above.
Everyone of these motor vehi- cles, and all of the farm tractors, is a pecessary unit, Maintenance of all of them must somehow be assured, because the truck which is laid up for lack of parts or tools and machinery, cannot haul food, building materials, clothes, or any other important corgo: because the bus out..of servite,interferes with the ability of its passengers to get to work, or to places of necessary recreation; and because the tractor which is out of repair cannot help produce the food still so sorely needed.
HKAA to hold motor Rally
An Automobile Rally-thà first, one in the Colony—|| being organised by the Hong Kong Automobile Clus for August 5,
The Rally, is open to HKAA members only, and the obes- slon will provide for a socla! and sporting, gathering that should appeal to all motorists. Entrance foo for the Rally IL $10 per car including tunoh for the driver if application . is made before June 30. Mambore entering their ap- plication after that date will be required to pay $20. En- tries close on July 16.
All HRAA members, are urged to support the Rally. which, it haped, will va the first of many.
Overland trip to New Zealand
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Safety Inspections a factor
A motor car will virtually Outstanding also in die 1950 next six months of two young be the home and office for the World Motor Census is the very large number of territories which
men who set-out recently to maintain safety inspection sys-drive from Britain to New tems, checking vehicles in both Zealand. public and private service once or Iwice a year. Maintenance for They, ere the Hon, Jolin Godley, economy and reliability in essen- aged 29, heir of Viscount Kil- tial; maintenance for safety is brnelien, and 25-year-old Ame- growing.
tican ex-G. 1. Hank Nlese,
artist from Important factor in the in-commercial
Mont- creases now reported is liberalisdelare, New Jersey. tion of laws. In many areas counted thus
Mr. Godley's great grandfather weight and size rules were eased. In the founder of Christchurch. and taxes lowered, with vehícle New Zealand which this year use bounding ahead, Many tbr-
its centenary. celebrates ritorial reports stated plainly that New Zealand Government naked more units are needed, will be Mr. Godley, a feature writer of secured, taxes or no, but will be
Sunday newspaper, to represent secured more quickly with
family during the official favourable regulatory climate, celebrations and offered to pay
bis Business growth, improved health. bad exchange of merchandise
Gadley-an
ex-Naval
Air than Pilot decided that rather ideas are only possible with trans- portait m
proved to be theto by sen, he would profer to easiest form to expand.
travel overland by car, and the Interesting diso said that cars
was the large Nuffield Organisation agreed number of
which showed equip and lend him a Morris Ox- reporta that tourists bring value to the ford for, the journey. The countries they visit. In several 12,000-mile overland Journey 13 arcab,
that is
Is where the
new care by way of Paris, Munich, Trieste, are going to carry profitable Aleppo, Baghdad. Basra, Teheran, Belgrade, Athens, Istanbul, tourists, where they want to cross Afghanistan to Delhi and
Reports show a steadily. Im- proving: fuel situation.. More and Calcutta. more courtriès ended·
rationing in 1949 even though consumption rose as much as 56 per cent in Outstanding operation increase
some places-consumption of im- After reaching Calcutta in Au- was once more scored in buses,
ported fuel in most instances, an- gurt, the car will be shipped to which rose 42.2 per cent in a sin-
other evidence that governments Australia, and its crew will re- le year to the record breaking figure of 405, 111 units, and this is know that automotive vehicles join it after exploring Singa-
must be köpt running.
and Sumatro. pore, Indonesia still incomplete because many territories include buses with
Notable, in country-by-country' | After a trip across Australia to the rise of Diesel- Bydney the car will go by sea to reporta la trucks, as, in fact, do some of the states of the United States. Rea-driven trucks and buses, Only Christchurch, which it is hoped son for the bus gain is easy to secured because many countries amber-2
very incomplete figures could be to reach by the middle of Nov- to get to
month before the do not separate Diesel from potrol offelál: date of the centanary work and home
nguin, untired
driven trucks and buses, but sa celebrations. from walking or. from hours of
far, 238,084 Diésel operated vehl- inconvenient transport, they must ride in buses.
cles are reported, a small percent
In Passenger
service, but a increase was age of the total car
rising agure, anther much used larger outside United States than
Kerosene is fuel. particularly in farm tractors. Further outstanding, fact in, the country-by-country analysis is a somewhat higher rate of removal of old and worn-out vehicles from the folds." In the past three to five per cent a year was consider ed about average, though it must be admitted that, three per cent Indicated a life of 31 years for vehicles. The dve per cent, Arture ports of thousands of 18 to 25 now reported därces well with res.: years old units still running.
sus are these.
Bus operation soars
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cubic yards of chalk having to be excavated.
The structural steel of the tuliding, originally intended for a new factory in the,U.S., was Imported in fabricated form from General Motors, the parent organisation.
The steelwork, originally pro- duced for a square building, had to be modified to fit the Vauxhall elongated site.
The building is all on one floor level except for a reinforced con- erete basement to be connected by lifts to the ground floor. The new building, completo with boller house and services, which are also in the course of cons- ituction, is costing £2,500,000.
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the ga in number of trucks in operation, 12.2 per cent compared with 7.2 per cent, a circumstance which was to be expected as the first urgent post-war needs for trucks were cased.
is a ratio or Cost of operation is high and
aby that added
great, number of the went into strictly private use, except in sucit ser. ritories as Great Britain, Canada, Australia and a few others. Even in those countries, the chances favour use of such new cars by doctors, shilesmen and offiend who them more for business put- poses than for personal. convoy-.;
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No figures on the final use of
Older võhicles lööving roads
The 1950 World Motor Census cars have ever been compiled out-tabulators found many instances. side the United States where of seven and eight per cent losses seven years ago it was shown that | from ""obsolescence," and quite a more than four out of five trips few countries last 12 to 10 per by car were necessitous for cent of their vehicles in the year. shipping, churchgoing to school, to work, by doctors cle.
Truck bus forgi 15,690,317
Much has been wHiton of the
For the test of: 1950, snotter large regiment of old vedicles will bbo, fost: to "setyltä, finless, means are found to buy the parts; acces :sories, and "garage equipment reż [quired to:, kuup, then fir, service, How much win this cost? - Ons authority, estimates that the ever- sudden and large crease tage vehicle car, truck or bus number of cars Yet i was only In the 1947, World Motor Censur that operation, world over," 'of more than 10,000,000 trucks and buses combined was reported for the first tline. Expel Agures
then were 10-172,784 units, now funt. The world's three years later, trucks and buses have reached the total of 16.000,- 317 units, an increase of 54) per
Every one of these trucks
butses is clearly in direct came,
today needs. $74.25 US of parts alone, cacti'year."
The average is of course, in- kredsed by; the greater hedds of trucks and buses,
especially the lastor.
very old, even with addition; of The world's buses are mostly housands of dow units in the past, ew year. Illustrative is the ac low of Brazil, which, zar ziqod. vaný deathtrapati on the rousi
Pinducing work: "Put "hanothér | sands, ofanelent" "way: "25 per cent →→ pue of ovary, some howjjonte fu tour vehicles in operation in the buses,, wling world-in a truck or bus, a work
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Car by ship
Except in the big cliles, Mr. Godley and Mr. Niese will live rough, pitching their tent where the mood takes
A special le
table fixture to the dashboard of the car will enable Mr. Godley to
articles write
as he travels ilirough the various countries.
So that he can make, the trip,. Mr. Godley, has resigned his staff appointment with the Sun- day newspaper.
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