Telegraph highlights historic peacetime decline in car numbers

A combination of the recession and the Government’s scrappage scheme was ‘blamed’ for the first drop in car numbers in the UK since the end of World War Two.

There were mixed signals in the media in early April concerning whether the number of cars on the UK’s roads is going up or down.

“Recession leads to first drop in car ownership since wartime,” was a front-page headline in The Daily Telegraph on 8 April, with the paper laying the blame for a recorded drop of 0.7% in the number of cars on the roads in 2009 at the door of “the recession, the Government’s ‘cash for bangers’ scrappage scheme and stricter...

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