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car mileage en · NOUN

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1. (countable, uncountable) Car miles collectively.
   • The total revenue car mileage in bituminous coal service for the period was ascertained for each division in a similar manner, and that in coke service also, except that the empty car mileage in this service was taken as equal to the loaded car mileage as already indicated. 1914 January 31, The Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Report of Price, Waterhouse & Company upon the cost to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Philadephia & Reading Railway Company of transporting antracite coal from the respective mining sections in the eastern part of Pennsylvanial to Philadelphia, page 13:
   • That the passenger car mileage for the entire system for the year ending June 30th, 1906, was 44,779,961 miles, of which 6,812593 miles or 15.214 per cent., was in the state of Washington. 1908, Second and Third Annual Reports of the Railroad Commission of Washington to the Governor, page 282:
   • It will be immediately apparent from this table that the extent to which the average weights of coaches and Pullman cars on each road is considered in the total, without, for the moment, questioning the accuracy of such weight for the various individual roads, bears no relation whatever either to the ratio which the car mileage of each particular road bears to the whole of the 19 roads, or even to the ratio which the car mileage tested on each particular road bears to the total mileage tested on the 19 roads. 1924, Congressional Record, page 5551:
   • The figures which I submitted at Detroit two years ago, and which were based upon the ton mileage, indicated that the total car mileage for the year 1890, was about 11,878,947,768 miles. Had the whole number of roads reported to the commission for the year 1892, it is fair to assume that the total car mileage would approximate twelve billion miles, which, of course, includes the item given above showing the mileage of private cars. 1894 July 14, The Railway Review, volume 34, number 28, page 398:
2. (countable, uncountable) The amount paid by one railroad for the use of cars of another railroad.
   • (12) Please favor us with any suggestions or recommendations pertinent to the question of the adoption of a uniform system of accounting for the mileage of foreign freight cars, in such a manner as to enable owners of the cars to verify with some degree of accuracy, the amount of car mileage reported to them by the various railroads over which the cars run. (13) Please forward with your replies, samples of all records and forms used in accounting for mileage of foreign freight cars on your road. 1897, The Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader, volume 23, page 195:
   • Mr. Breed, purchasing agent and president's secretary of the Louisville and Nashville R. R., was called to the chair, and on taking it he said that two years ago last spring the question of individual car mileage was brought up at the Purchasing Agents' Convention. He stated that the keeping of the mileage of the passenger cars and engines was a very simple matter, from the fact that they are always on their own road. As far as freight cars were concerned, it was more difficult to obtain their mileage, from the fact that they were for a great portion of the time of foreign roads. 1878 January 14, “General Railway Information”, in Travelers’ Official Railway Guide for the United States and Canada, page xxxiv:
   • I need not say to any auditor, or any person who has ever had anything to do with the keeping and returns of car mileage, that if car mileage is properly kept and honestly returned, it would not involve ten per cent (our auditor says five) additional clerical force or time to return each car, over the present “aggregate returns” system. And this leads me to speak of the fact, that but few—even among railroad men—know how small mileage the average of freight cars (and of course freight car-wheels) is in a year. 1876 August 25, “Contributions”, in The Railroad Gazette, page 367:
3. (countable, uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see car, mileage. The number of miles that a car (or a similar vehicle) drives.
   • This would be particularly so in Scotland where the average urban car mileage is greater than in rural areas. 1982, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, ECMT Round Tables: The Future of the Use of the Car, page 118:
   • "Before we get started on this program," Mr. ___ said, "I think it is essential that residents of the ___ area understand in very definite terms why it is necessary to ration car mileage and exactly what the Defense Council proposes to do ." 1943, United States. Office of Civilian Defense, Release for Mileage Publicity, page P-1:
   • The California State Highway Patrol is currently engaged in a study of the relationship between patrol car mileage and operating, maintenance, repair cost and depreciation. 1979, NBS Special Publication - Issue 480, page 3:
   • The ratio of average annual truck mileage to passenger car mileage is therefore 1.23. 1940, United States. Office of Federal Coordinator of Transportation, Public Aids to Transportation, page 130:
   • It is our experience and our belief, based upon our studies, that with proper tire care, and we mean the kind of care that is available through tire-service stations but which the owner has not heretofore found necessary because he had unlimited supplies of new rubber available, will increase the average car mileage from 18,000 miles to a conservative figure of 32,000 miles. 1942, Problems of American Small Business - Parts 1-9, page 460:

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