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A TWELVE HOURS' CENSUS ON 



TYPE OF VEHICLE. April 23, 1907. April 19, 1911. 



Horse-drawn buses . 2241 . . 95 



Motor-buses . . 995 . . 2684 



Horse-cabs . . 1902 . . 391 



Motor-cabs (taxis) . 48 . . 1616 



In the Edgware Road the results for 1906 and 1911 were : 



A NINE HOURS' CENSUS ON 



TYPE OF VEHICLE. Sept. 2O, 1906. Sept. 18, ign. 



Horse-drawn buses . J 776 . 21 



Motor-buses . . 441 . . 1599 



Horse-cabs . . 1051 l . . 260 



Motor-cabs (taxis) . 10 .. 1131 



Statistics taken on the Portsmouth Road for the Surrey 

 County Council on seven successive days in corresponding 

 weeks of July, 1909, 1910 and 1911 show that the numbers 

 of motor-vehicles passing between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. were : 



YEAR. NO. OF MOTORS. 



1909 5. 86 3 



1910 . .... 7,823 



1911 ...... 10,635 



These figures give an increase in two years of 81 per cent. 

 During twelve hours on a Saturday in July, 1911, the number 

 of motor-vehicles counted was 3279, or an average of 273 

 per hour. The greatest number passing in a single hour 

 was 524, while during the period of the heaviest traffic 90 

 passed in ten minutes. 



AH these varied and ever-extending uses to which motor- 

 vehicles are being put would seem almost to foreshadow the 

 time when the horse is likely to be found only at the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens, as a curious survival of a bygone age in 

 traction. 



Definite statistics as to the extent to which automobilism, 

 in its manifold phases, constitutes an industry in itself are 

 not available ; but the activities now employed on or in 

 connection with motors, motoring, and motor transport are 

 manifold and widespread. 



1 Figure for Sept. 2j, 1907. 



