The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-10
AUTOMOBILE DEALERS.

Indianapolis manufacturers and
dealers have Joined forces to hold a
show from March 16 to FL.
No account of fuel consumption nor
of tire troubles will be taken in the
Irish reliability trials. to be held May
IL to 16.
During 1907 there were 47.302
pleasure gasoline cars manufactured
in the United States and 5000 steam
and electric motor vehicles.
Sheffield university, England's IA
nous educational institution. has es-
tabHshed classes for automobile own
ers and chauffeurs.
Two Philadelphia playhouses have
esta blished a line of ten motor buses
to carry patrons free to and from the
theaters nightly.
One of the 1908 models carries
folding seat over the footboard to ac-
commodate the chauffeur when the
owner of the car wishes to drive
Automobile coal wagons of three
ton capacity. the boxes of which are
tipped by the 8 horsepower motors
which drive them. are in use at Ber-
lin.
~ motor truck. with /. capacity of
six large hogsheads Of wine or other
the owners of extensive vineyards
near Paris.
The first endurance contest it ever
has held and a series Of gymkhana
games are being arranged by the
Automobile club of Hartford. Conn,
for May 16.
A Pittsburg chauffeur who ran into
and wrecked two vehicles recently
was sent to the county Jail for thirty
days and fined Il cents by police
magistrate.
A screw so worn as to fail to fit
tightly in the hole for which it Is in
tended may be enlarged by saving
| across the end and inserting a small
scrap of metal as wedge.
NJ. J. Bud1ong has resigned as gen.
| eral manager of the Association of
| Licensed Automobile Manufacturers
| company that builds moyor cars.
Motorists from all over the country
will attend the hearing on the fed
eral automobile registration bill, now
before congress, before the house
| judiciary committee on March 12
The efforts of the Manitoba farm
ers to rush a bill through the legisla-
| ture governing automobiles has re-
| suited in the formation of a motor
| league with headquarters at Winni-
peg.
The German Reichstag has been
asked to require a chauffeur to drive
a car 10000 kilometers, about 6,210
miles, under the eye of an official
observer before he is granted a
| license.
| a
noon while the streets were covered
| with ice SO per cent of the vehicle
| which passed through a much-trav-
| e1ed block on Broadway, New York
were motor driven.
One of the cars in the New York
| to Paris race Is carrying fanged
| wheels for use on the Transsiberian
railway, a permit to use the tracks
having been obtained from the Rus
sian government.
| To advance the interest in touring
| and to assist motorists who do tour
the Automobile Club of America, New
York's greatest organization, has
added subscription memberships to
! its bureau Of tours.
| The Indianapolis Commercial club
| has asked it's city council to require
| drivers licenses Of all automobile
operators revokable for drunkenness,
| disorderly conduct or violation OF
local speed regulations.
| Hiram Maxim, widely known as the
| inventor of the gun bearing his name,
! claims to have devised a new motive
| power to lessen the expense of driv-
| ing automobile motor boat and other
| highspeed engines.
One Of the automobile measures
now before the Massachusetts, legisla-
| ture amends the law relative to the
storage of explosive and inf1ammable
fluids so as to exempt gasoline tanks
IN automobiles from its provisions.