Motor Road Transport For Commercial Purposes
(Liquid Fuel, Steam, Electricity)
Forfatter: John Phillimore
År: 1920
Forlag: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Sted: London
Sider: 212
UDK: 629.113
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MOTOR ROAD TRANSPORT : PAST AND PRESENT 5
And in Chart 5 (p. 7) of motor cycles, the increase
from January, 1918, to January, 1919, was from
13,100 to 16,450.
The fali in the curves of charts 3 and 4 towards the
end of 1917, was due to transference of vehicles to
Italy.
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CHART 1: TRACTORS.
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Jan. Feb. Man. Apr. May. June.July. Aug. Sept.Oct. Nov. Dec.
Reliability.
The immensity of the undertaking and the general
reliability of the vehicles may be gauged by the facts
tliat in 1918, nearly up to the time of the Armistice,
90 to 91 per cent, of the operating lorries were in *
running order, and that only about 600 lorries out of
the total of over 30,000 that went over to France
were condemned as being totally unfit for service.