No. 509.-ELECTRIC RAILWAYS-FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR ELEVATED AND SUBWAY LINES: 1912 TO 1937

NOTE. All figures in thousands of dollars. Data exclude the mixed elevated, subway, and surface systems of Boston and Philadelphia which are included in the surface group

No. 510.-TROLLEY-BUS LINES-SUMMARY: 1932 AND 1937

NOTE.-Figures for 1937 cover all trolley-bus companies operating during that period; those for 1932 represent trolley-bus operations of electric street railway companies

1932 1

1937

Number of companies

Miles of route (round trip).

Miles of street or highway served (one way).

Number of trolley busses operated.

Passengers, total number (thousands).

Revenue, including pay-transfer
Free, including free-transfer.

Revenue trolley-bus miles (thousands).

Revenue passengers per revenue mile (average number).

Wage earners, number?

Wages (thousands of dollars)

Salaried employees, number (average of number reported on June 30 and Dec. 31).

Salaries (thousands of dollars).

Accidents:

Fatalities, number.

Injured, number.

Operating revenues, total

Transportation revenues.

Other revenues.

Operating expenses, total.

Way and structures and equipment.
Power.

Conducting transportation.

General and other.

Net operating revenues (trolley-bus).

Auxiliary operations: '

Revenues.

Expenses.

Net operating revenue.

Taxes assignable to trolley-bus operations.

Operating income

Nonoperating income.

Gross income.

Net income..

See headnote.

Number on pay roll as of June 30 for 1932; average of number on pay roll as of June

30 and Dec. 31 for 1937. See also head note.

No separate data; included with data for street-railway operations.

Auxiliary operations consist essentially of sale of electric energy and gas. On basis of relative volume of expenses and revenues, trolley-bus transportation activities were secondary.

Source of tables 509 and 510: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Census of Electrical Industries, report on Street Railways and Trolley-Bus and Motorbus Operations.

No. 511.-MOTORBUS LINES-SUMMARY FOR LINES OPERATED BY ELECTRIC RAILWAYS AND BY SUBSIDIARY AND SUCCESSOR COMPANIES: 1927, 1932, AND 1937

1 Includes data for affiliates of trolley-bus systems and for motorbus systems not affiliated with, subsidiary to, or successors to street-railway systems in cities with population of 100,000 inhabitants or over.

1 No data.

• Deficit.

Included in consolidated balance sheets of reports for operating street railways. See table 505. Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; Census of Electrical Industries, report on Street Railways and Trolley-Bus and Motorbus Operations.

No. 512.-MOTORBUS LINES MILEAGE AND PASSENGER TRAFFIC, BY STATES:

Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Census of Electrical Industries, report on Street Railways and Trolley-Bus and Motorbus Operations.

No. 513.-MOTORBUS LINES-SUMMARY FOR PUBLIC CARRIERS AND PRIVATE CARRIERS: 1934 TO 1939

NOTE.-Figures for 1937 and 1938 have been revised in keeping with actual operating revenues. Figures for earlier years have not been so revised

1 Common carriers and sightseeing carriers.

2 Miles of route operated (one way). Includes slight duplication resulting from use of same highway by

more than one route.

3 Not available.

4 Does not include income and excess-profit taxes.

All taxes paid as users of the highway and as operators of motor vehicles; includes excise taxes levied All taxes paid as citizens and businesses in general.

under Revenue Acts of 1932 and 1934.

Source: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Inc., New York, N. Y.; Bus Transportation, Annual Review and Statistical Number.

No. 514.-CIVIL AERONAUTICS SUMMARY: 1930 TO 1939

7 Data not available.

Domestic scheduled air lines operate within continental limits of the United States; foreign and territorial operations cover activities of American air lines in foreign countries and territories of the United States. Estimated. Includes office personnel beginning 1932. Not including express and freight privately carried. Includes 1,719,919 airplane-miles flown by Army Air Corps. The mail pound-miles flown and mail-payment statistics of Inter Island Airways, Ltd., are included with the domestic mail pound-miles and mail payments as this company holds a domestic air mail contract. All other statistics for this carrier are included with the figures for foreign and territorial operations. Includes $2,249,004 paid to Army Air Corps.

1 All data, except airplane-miles flown, are as of Dec. 31; figures, except as noted, cover the domestic feld only. 11 Long line teletypewriter equipped.

1 Pilots and airplanes licensed by the American Government; figures include some pilots and airplanes operating on foreign extensions.

Source: Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration; figures published in Oct. 15, 1940, issue of Civil Aeronautics Journal, a semimonthly publication.

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