Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-20
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Teheran. Persia is at last to be con-
nected with the rest of the world with
something faster than the ship of the
desert" the camel. The first auto ar
rived from Eureli on the Caspian sea
the other day and a regular service
between the capital and that point
has been established.
Russian merchants furnished the
capital for the route, but the shah's
brother-in-law is manager. His ma
jesty granted him the concession free
Of taxes for twenty years. The autos
will carry mail, which Is n most Inn
portant factor for American commerce.
Heretofore mall was dispatched from
Teheran once week by a British
courier.
The Austrian war office Is taking up
automobiles seriously. They have been
experimenting with armored automo-
biles. and now have instituted an in
struction course for officers and men
In driving and maintaining motor cars.
The instructions cover the practical
side of automobiles. The students are
shown how a car is constructed, as
well as how to effect small repairs.
The automobile industry. according to
preliminary bulletin issued by the
census bureau, shows a very large III
crease for the calendar year 1904 as
compared with 1900, the year of taking
the twelfth census.
In the former year 2t 1856 passenger
and pleasure machines were produced,
as against 1916 in 1900, and 144t vehicles
of other styles in 1904, as against 407 in
1900.
In 1904 the amount of capital invest
ed was S20.555,247, as against S5.76S.S57,
or an increase of $50 per cent The
value of products increased 461 per
cent, the amounts being stated as $685.
645 .O64 in 1904, as against &749011 in
1900.
At the annual meet of the Bay State
Automobile association to be held on
Memorial Day, May 30, at the Readville
track, there will be a match race be
tween Mrs. Joan Newton Cuneo of
Long Island, and Mrs. Ernest Rogers
of Brookline, Mass.
Both ladies will drive Maxwell run
abouts and the race will be interesting
because of the fact that the two drivers
have met only once, at Atlantic City,
where both competed in the runabout
class races on Ventnor beach. At that
time Mrs, Rogers machine was not
in first-cass condition. She is conf
Gent that on the Readville track she
can make the running very close.
Even baby may now play at motor
ing under realistic conditions, in the
pramotor new vehicle which has
made its appearance in London. 1t is
combination of the od-fashioned
perambulator and the up-to-date motor
car In appearance the pramotor re-
sembles a diminutive motor car, eX-
cepting that the steering wheel is at
the back and not i'm the hood 1t pos
sesses a hood, whose back can bemade
sesses a hood, whose back can be made
may be able to see the child from be-
hind the carriage, and a window is
fixed in front, so that baby may be
immune from draughts
The New York Herald says that in
one mile of Broadway automobiles to
the value of $165, 900 are sold every bust
ness day That record has been main
tianed for the four weeks beginning
April 1, and constitutes the most re-
markable selling era in the annals of
automobiling anywhere. 1t forecasts
the greatest automobile season ever
known in this country, and establishes
the manufacture and sale of motor
vehicles as one of the most important
industries in this country
There are assurances that the van
derbilt cup race this summer is to be
the international event of the year.
France, Italy, Germany Belgium and
England have promised entries.
The American Automobile associa-
tion is to begin at once an effort to have
reciprocal licenses issued by all states.
In Missouri a visiting motorist is re-
quired to have a new license in each
county.
Electric motor cars are to be fitted
with several attachments to add to the
comfort of occupants. Already there
are electric fans. electric dome lights,
electric annunciators and electric cigar
lighters