Kraks Vejviser 1937 Handelsregister

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Jrst railway in Denmark was opened in 1847 and ran from Copenhagen to Ros- year 1862 the total length of railway lines in this country was 109 km., in kilde. Ias 2914 km. and at the beginning of 1935 it had risen to 5200 km. About one 1 che railways are State Railways and the latter also maintain steam ferry connections h^lfjweden between Copenhagen—Malmo and Elsinore—Helsingborg, and with Germany j^leen Gedser—Warnemunde. The ferries of the State Railways also maintain the connection / th e 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 connection between Denmark and central and south Europe via Padborg in North Slesvig, was opened in 1935. 49 million railway journeys of an average length of 30 km. are made annually in Denmark. The goods traffic carried amounts to about 7 miil. tons per annum. The gross receipts from the transportation of goods and passengers amount in all to 125 mili. Kroner, three fifths of this amount falling on the transportation of goods. The Danish airlines are operated by Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S. This Company was established in 1918 and is thus the oldest air transport company in Europe. Since 1925 the Company has been subsidized by the Government and by the City of Copenhagen. The Copenhagen Airport, accommodating both land planes and liydroplanes, is situa­ ted close to the city at Kastrup. It was built by the State and was opened for traffic in 1925 and is considered one of the best in existence. In recent years the traffic to and from Kastrup Airport has increased enormously. In 1929 the aggregate weight of payloads carried by arriving and departing planes totaled 800,147 kilos, whereas the corresponding figure for the year 1935 was 2.459.285 kilos. In 1936, Det Danske Luftfartselskab operated the following lines: Copenhagen—Malmo and vice versa (2 lines): (Malmo) — Copenhagen—Hamburg & v. v.; (Malmo) — Copenha­ gen—Berlin & v. v.; Malmo—Copenhagen—Berlin & v. v. (Malmo) — Copenhagen—Hamburg —Amsterdam & v. v.; Stockholm—Malmo—Copenhagen—Hamburg - Amsterdam & v. v. and the night mail service Malmo —Copenhagen—Hanover & v. v. The big fast 3-engined liners of the Company fleet, 1 Junkers Ju 52 and 2 Fokker F.XII craft with a cruising speed of 250 and 225 kilometers per hour, respectively, make the scheduled flights Copenhagen—Ber­ lin in 1 hr. 50 mins., Cohenhagen-Hamburg in 1 hr. 20 mins., Copenhagen-Amsterdam in 3 hrs. 30 mins., and Copenhagen—Malmo—Stockholm in 2 hrs. 45 mins. An affiliated company, Provins Luftfartselskabet A/S, established Sept. 4th, 1936, ope­ rated a trial airline Copenhagen—Aalborg & v. v. with Fokker F. VII planes chartered from the D. D. L. during the month of September in order to test the possibilities of domestic air services. The venture was successful, the passenger seating capacity being 80 °/0 utilized and 2.431 kilos bf mail being carried, and a more extensive program is being prepared for the 1937 summer season. Besides the airlines enumerated there are several foreign lines touching at Kastrup, daily connection being maintained between Copenhagen and practically all the more impor- tant 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 1936 there were in Denmark about 163.000 licensed motor vehicles (including 1500 motor busses and 27.000 motor cycles). In the year 1935 there was one automobile for every 28 of the population, whereas abroad the figures for the same year were as follows: Sweden one for every 40 of the population, in Norway one for every 46, in Belgium one for every 51 and in Germany one for every 63 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 tenth person has a telephone. In 1933 the number of telephone conversations carried on in Denmark per head of the population amounted to 160. The corresponding figures for Germany in the same year were 33, Great Britain 33 and France 20 per head of the population.