Kraks Vejviser 1936 Handelsregister

298 the greater part of the services between the home ports, and the transportation of agricultural products to England. The largest fleet of motor ships is owned by Det Østasiatiske Kom­ pagni (The East Asiatic Co. Ltd.) for which company the Burmeister & Wain Yard in the year 1912 built the first Diesel motor ship „Selandia". Other Communications. The first railway in Denmark was opened in 1847 and ran from Copenhagen to Ros­ kilde. In the year 1862 the total length of railway lines in this country was 109 km., in 1900 it was 2914 km. and at the beginning of 1934 it had risen to 5200 km. About one half of the railways are State Railways and the latter also maintain steam ferry connexions with Sweden between Copenhagen—Malmo and Elsinore—Helsingborg, and with Germany between Gedser—Warnemunde. The ferries of the State Railways also maintain the connexion in the through traffic which is frequently broken by the numerous fairways, but bridges are presently under construction over several of the Danish sounds and belts. The bridge across The Little Belt, situated on the principal overland connexion between Denmark and central and south Europe is via Padborg in North Slesvig, was opened in 1935. 41 million railway journeys of an average length of 33 km. are made annually in Denmark. The goods traffic carried amounts to about 8 mili. tons per annum. The gross receipts irom the transportation of goods and passengers amount in all to 120 inill. Kroner, three fifths of this amount falling on the transportation of goods. The Danish air services are run by the Danish Air Traffic Company which was established in 1918, making it the oldest air-way company in Europe. Since 1925 the Company has received a subvention from the Danish State and the Copenhagen Municipality. The Ka­ strup aerodrome and airport situated close by Copenhagen, built by the State and opened in 1925, is one of the best in existence both for aeroplanes an hydroplanes. In recent years the traffic on Kastrup has increased enormously. In 1929 the aggre- gate weight conveyed by incoming and outgoing airplanes was in all 800,147 kg., whereas for 1934 the figures amounted to 2,211,857 kg. In 1935 the Danish Air Traffic Company maintained the following routes: Malmø— Copenhagen—Berlin and vice versa, Malmo—Copenhagen —Hamburg and vice versa, Malmo— Copenhagen—Hamburg—Amsterdam and v. v., Copenhagen—Malmo and v. v., and also the night mail route Malmo—Copenhagen—Hannover and v. v. The big fast Fokker F-XII planes (225 km. per hr.) make the scheduled passages (passenger traffic) in the following times: Copenhagen—Berlin 1 hr. 50 m. Copenhagen—Hamburg 1 hr. 25 m. Copenhagen—Amster­ dam 3 hrs. 35 m. via Hamburg, and Copenhagen—Malmo 10 minutes. Besides the routes enumerated there are several foreign routes which touch Kastrup so that there are now daily connexions between Copenhagen and practically all the more important cities of Europe. Thanks chiefly to Denmark’s excellent high-roads which have been rendered more firm by special paving and surface treatment (Macadamization) the motor traffic in recent years has acquired very considerable importance both for passenger and goods traffic. On the 30th of September 1935 there were in Denmark about 157.000 licensed motor vehicles (including 1300 motor busses and 26.000 motor cycles). In the year 1934 there was one automobile for every 29 of the population, whereas abroad the figures for the same year were as follows: Sweden one for every 44 of the population, in Norway one for every 49, in Belgium one for every 53 and in Germany one for every 84 of the population. The Mail and Telegraph services in Denmark are exclusively in the hånds of the State. The Great Northern Telegraph Company, founded in 1869, has laid out and owns an extensive cable system in Europe and Asia. On the other hånd the Telephone service, apart from the inter-provincial communi- cation and that of North Slesvig, is in private hånds. In Denmark every tentli person has a telephone. In 1932 the number of telephone conversations carried on in Denmark per head of the population amounted to 154. The corresponding figures for Germany in the same year were 33, Great Britain 32 and France 20 per head of the population.