The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-05
THE AUTOMO-
 BILE WORLD

A new Japanese automobile factory has built at a cost of $2.500 an auto mobile which seats twelve persons.
 The threads of all bolts should be oil to a pastelike consistency. This mixture should also be applied to the spark plug threads.
 Reports show that there are only two cars in Jerusalem and they are rarely used because the roads are so bad. AS far as Consul Coffin knows there never has been more than one tourist in Palestine. That was Charles J. Glidden, the Boston ian
 Pipe claying of tires is being done more and more on this side. Any af- cars may be seen of which the tires have been treated in this way. It gives a snappy touch to the appear ance of an automobile. It is very much the custom in England.
 A person making application as driver of a motor car vehicle in Ger many must present his birth certiff- cate, an unmounted- photograph of himself. a doctor certificate as to his physical condition. especially with reference to his sight and hearing, and evidence that he has finished a course with some person or at some institution officially qualified to teach the driving of motor vehicles.
 If the application is otherwise ac- ceptable, the party is referred to an expert especially designated to ex- anime such applicants. The examin- ation Is oral, and the applicant must also give a practical demonstration cle-
 Ten years ago there were about 3.5eo machines in America-now there are 100000. Ten years ago there were twenty-seven factories (200 cars be- ing a record production for any one of them)-now We have almost 10O producing factories, to say nothing of a like number of experimenters involved in the making of motor cars while an annual production of 150 900 and even 25 GOO cars in one fac- tory is not unusual
 Drivers who suffer from cold feet in the winter @time," says Automob' le Topics in a timely note. should try the experiment of removing part of the footboard and allowing the hot air from the engine to circulate around their feet. On most cars the forward part of the floor boards, that is the short tilted stretch on which the control pedals are placed, is split, fransyersely, and the upper half of th's tilted portion may be removed without interfering with the support of the feet. On some cars. the draught if warm is not excessive"
 Out in Chicago a young man who jumped aboard an automobile stand ing outside a club and drove away with it for joy ride was sentenced to a year in jail for it. He had donc the same on two other occas'ons pre- viously. but on the other charges the jury let him go, because he had not tried to sell or convert the cars. but merely had ridden in them. The judge who sentenced the young man said he would cure others of like habit of taking, if only temporarily, things that did not belong to them.
 Automobilists who have toured for any distance this season through the country, and particularly over the popular eastern trunk routes. have had many occasions to protest against the system usually adopted by road contractors in closing for long per- iods. important sections of the high ways while undergoing repair. So naerant in many places, and particu- 1arly in the central and western part