A German Centenary in 1986, a French in 1995 or the Real Beginnings About 1905?

Theo Barker

Chapter 1 in The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles, 1987, pp 1-54 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are now over 470 million motor vehicles in use throughout the world. This huge and daunting total means that there is one vehicle for every ten people on earth: men, women and children. Although private cars and taxis preponderate (there are over 320 million of them), and motor cycles add over 60 million more, this leaves over 90 million commercial vehicles of various sorts: vans, lorries and buses.2 Farm tractors have not been included, though they are sometimes referred to incidentally in subsequent chapters. Important as they are to agricultural development, they are not primarily vehicles which run upon public roads; they would add only a little over 21 million vehicles to the total.

Keywords: Motor Vehicle; Petrol Engine; Petrol Vehicle; Motor Cycle; Automobile Topic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_1

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