The Excel workbook 'Vehicle stock' contains five data sheets

• Sheet vehicles 1950-2007;
• Sheet Cars by engine size;
• Sheet Vehicles by fuel type;
• Sheet goods vehicles; and
• Sheet Forecasts GB.

Contents of the data sheets are as follows

Sheet vehicles 1950-2007

Block A.4 to L.68   Motor vehicles currently licensed by taxation class: 1950-2008 from TSGB 2008 Table 9.1 and Vehicle Licensing Statistics 2008 Table 4 and 9

Block A.75 to AB.98  Vehicle stock 1960 to 2007 by type

Block A.115 to AB.124  Vehicles per person 1960 to 2007 by type

Block A.134 to L.188  Historic data.  Vehicles currently in use 1903 to 1980 from TSGB 1970-80 Table 2.19    Note: figures are not consistent with TSGB 2007 Table 9.1

Block Q.134 to AG.196  Historic data.  Vehicles currently in use 1909 to 1995 by tax class from DfT Vehicle Licensing Statistics 2006 Table 2.6.  Again, not fully consistent with the other lists of vehicles currently licensed.

Sheet Cars by engine size

Block A.6 to AA.24   Cars and private and light goods classified by engine capacity 1965 to 2007.  1965 to 1975 for private and light goods (cars and vans), 1980 onwards for body type cars. Note: there are about 5% more cars listed by body type regardless of tax class than cars taxed as PLG.