AUTOMOBILES
Reading edition
The following figures are from a motor census made by the Overseas Edition of The American Automobile. The total number of passenger cars, motor trucks, and motor busses operated in the leading countries of Europe at the beginning of 1929 was:
Great Britain 1,373,109
France 1,108,900
Germany 545,100
Italy 172,000
Spain 156,501
Sweden 126,898
Belgium 108,225
Denmark 88,898
Netherlands 85,500
Switzerland 61,000
Czecho-Slovakia 49,151
Irish Free State 40,198
Norway 36,027
Finland 32,438
Roumania 29,200
Austria 28,230
Poland 27,000
Portugal 25,261
Aside from automobiles assembled in Europe of American parts, the production of passenger cars and trucks by European makers amounted in 1928 to about 589,900, as compared with 574,000 units in the preceding year. Of the 1928 production, 215,000 cars were made in Great Britain; about 200,000 in France; 90,000 in Germany; 50,000 in Italy; 12,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 9,000 in Austria; and 7,000 in Belgium.