Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-13
U.S.. HAS 80
Per Cent OF
CARS IN WORLD
There Are 10, 505,660 Motor
Vehicles In This
Country

New York, March l1.-More than
SO per cent Of the IL. 5ss,s4e motor We
hicles in use in the world are in the
United States. With 10,5O5,660 in
this country and 961.O30 in other
EnElish-speaking countries there are
left only 1,122,O30 for the rest Of the
earth.
Divided into continental classified
tons, the world registrations of mo-
tor vehicles are: North and South
America. 1%l,1S2,l1o; Europe, LILO
996: Asia. 1~34,730; Oceanica, 125,2S1;
Africa, So sac. Registration in Span
ish-speaking countries aggregates
241, 5S4.
These statistics were gathered by
autonlotive industries. Others from
the same sourc show that countries
in which motor vehicles are most nu-
merous are, in order: United States
10,505,66o, Great Britain 4s7.5S2, Can
ada 463,44s: France 236.146, Germany
91,3S4, Argentina $4,000, Australia
Z $500, Italy $4,000. India. 45,9sS,
Dutch East Indies $4,000. Spain 81
$50, New Zealand 1850, Russia 35.-
$4,000. Denmark 22.26o, Cuba ? 10000,
Switzerland 1901. Austria 1880.
Norway 1890, Sweden l4,25o. Hol.
land 1850, Philippine Islands 12,3s1,
Japan 1920. Algeria 10000, Poland
10000, and Chile 10000.
Turkey Has $500.
There are motor vehicles every
where, however. The Malay states
have 5000, Turkey $500, Egypt 5,OS4,
Czecho-slovakia Aba, the Gold States
nary Islands sS1, Newfoundland 500,
British West Africa 566, Portuguese
East Africa 400, French West Africa
230. Madagascar 159, Italian Somali-
land Sc, and even Monrovia has 8.
The province of Ontario, with 200,-
900, has nearly half the total for Cam
ada, while the prairie provinces OF
Saskatchewan, with 63,370, leads the
old province of Quebec by 1000.
Although Argentina has a total Of
$4,000, cars and trucks, the city of
Buenos Aires with a population Of L.
100000 has only $4,000, nearly half
of which are taxicabs.
The total registration Of 497,5S2 for
Great Britain, including England.
Scotland, Ireland and Wales, shows
one motor vehicle for every IS per-
sons. France a only one for every
l52 persons.
Mexico was the only country which
imported more automobiles II 1921
SSAo$A ~ o6VS dIi0 CRI0AAS SOAAk90&GS
show; that its automotive I~eE3atrAfion
increased nearly so per cent last year.
Porto Rico is using motor vehicles
to supply transportation not furniShed
by railroads. The d~evelopnaent Of bus
lines on the island has reached large
proportions. The use of the motor bus
Also ID 4 recent development in Saliva
dor. @
Poland. with a population Of a.
o00.0t0, haa only 10000 motor vehi-
cles, 4 large percentage Of which are
IN, Warsaw LODI and Posen. The Free
city Of Danxig has 100.
Bulgaria, whose transportation sys-
tenn was wrecked during the war, has
only 1.140 ars and trucks for its 81
100000 population.
The increase in the number of auto
mobiles in Belgium since the war has
been Almost 100 per cent and the
country now has one automobile for
every 230 Inhabitants.
d Russian army operates 1900 OF
the $500 motor vehicles in Rumania,
and there are 3,ttO in Bucharest
alone
Only 8,l6e In China
Chine, With 3aeA,006t miles Of well
iation 81 3SS.bso,6o6 las i, motor ve.
hiclcrAeistfa upn5 of only $3.50, Shang:
hal has 1870 of these and Picking
AppsouAA.s,y 7.a4l 81 the 1890