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Show Forty Motor Vehicles to Every Mile of Highway With a registration of 23,125,000 motor vehicles and a total of 575,000 miles of Improved road? in the United Plates in 1927, there were 40 cars to every mile of improved highway of every ev-ery type. The comparative figure for 102G was 34 motor vehicles to every mile, and for 1918, 17 motor vehicles lo every mile. This shows in the ten-year ten-year period an Increase of 130 per cent in the number of motor units to every mile of improved highway. With the maximum load on the improved highways In 1927, each car would have had a space of only 44 yards in. which to operate, as compared with u2 yards in 1926 and 103 yards in 1918. |