SAS Chapter 11: page 3

The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998

Table 11A2 Vehicles licensed at 31 December 1997, by type of vehicle

			Total	Private and light goods vehicles	Motor cycles, scooters and mopeds	Public transport vehicles	Goods vehicles	Other vehicles¹
Scotland		(thousands)	2,022.6	1,779.4	27.0	9.2	30.6	40.4
Average age of vehicle (years)²
	Scotland		..	6.4	7.5	9.4	6.4	..
	Great Britain		..	7.3	7.9	9.6	6.5	..

Source: EAST:SODD

1 Average age of "other vehicles" is not available.
2 Estimated age - based on assumption that all vehicles are aged 1 year in year of registration (e.g. all cars registered for the first time in 1997 are estimated to be 1 year old).

Chart 11A1 Licensed vehicles, December 1997

pie chart

Source: EAST:SODD