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Each has been found to do the work which was formerly done by from sev- en to nine teams Of horses. At the end of three months service, an anal ysis of operating costs was made by the street commissioner as follows: Average cost of horses and wagons do- ing the work equivalent to that of one truck, per month, $960; average cost of one truck, per month, S125.25; saving due to use of one truck, S835.75: saving from six trucks at same rate, $5, ,014.5O. These figures do not include such items as depreciation, insurance and tires, but allowing for these, there would still be a big margin.
 To facilitate transportation of the general staff in case of war, the mlll- tary government of the city of Paris has decided to give those who own automobiles of medium power, espec- ially between 12 and 30 horse power, ity to perform in person all work nec- essary for the maintenance of the mechanism and the tires, a special Op- portunity to discharge their military duties in an agreeable manner. Bach of them must sign an agreement with the authorities that he will sell and turn over to the State, the moment a mobilization of the forces is called, the vehicle described in his application for the privilege of this form of services And for all manoeuvers he and his ve- hicle must be at disposal, the vehicle to be conducted by himself under or ders from his military superiors.
 After struggling with many minor phases of the standardization prob lem, the Society of Automobile Engin- eers has now entered upon the bold est step of it's career in undertaking a general ordering of the entire com- mercial vehicle situation. It has been Sol fhof yhofo hn mi iC h. ed can be best effected if begun before the industry shall have become infiex- ibly established along diffuse lines. Consequently, the committee having the subject in charge, which was ap- pointed shortly before the recent an- nual meeting, has begun preliminary work and outlined definite program. As an initial step an attempt has been made to determine desirable speeds for various sizes Of trucks. As ex- pressing the opinions of the individ- uas composing the committee at its recent meeting, the following tenta- tive economical speed limits were ar rived at: Capacity, one-ton, miles per hour, 15; two-ton, 12; three-ton, 10; four-ton 9; five-ton, 8.
 After a trial of an army motor truck, with trailer, for the German army, certain modification have been proposed by the trial commission and WILL pIOUdUly Ut duOptcu Oy SuS IilII- istry of war. The accelerator is to be dispensed with; a self-starter is to be secured to the dash, and must be &C., tuated by electromagnetic or equiva- lent means. The gear speeds must be 3 to 4 kilometers per hour for the re- verse and the slow speed, to for the second, to 13 for the third and not higher than 16 kilometers on the high. The brake for the trailer must ke op- erated from the drivers seat, the ac- ton being transmitted from a rotary shaft through a system of tension rods extending under the middle line of the truck to the trailer, but not by com on the trailer for attaching another trailer is to be abolished. A cut-out is again to be provided for the ex- haust muffler Cit had been abo ished before), as 1t has been found that the gain in power which may be secured by its use may be valuable in time of war, but it is to be screwed down tight in time of peace, so as to obviate breach of the police regulations.
 There is no reason why alcohol should not be used for propelling auto mobiles, if it can be obtained sufficient ly cheap. Exper. ments made with al- cohol fuel for internal combustion mo- tors have given good results, yet the use of this fuel seems to increase slow ly where the price of alcohol is con- siderably below that of gasoline. Some years ago, when the high tax on al- cohol production was waived, the gen. eral expectation was that the use of this fuel wou d make enormous str des. With denatured alcohol as free pro- duct, one looked forward to a greatly increased production, and a conse- quently lower price. The price has been somewhat reduced, and it is sell ing now for 75 cents a gallon: but, in any case, the production has not been increased as most people expected, who were then interested in this field. The chief reason for their disappointment lies in the fact that the raw material for alcohol is too costly in this coun- try to permit of using large quantities of it for denatured alcohol. Sugar. cane molasses is extensively used, bus beet molasses is more advantageously applied as cattle food; and potatoes, though originally found in America, command a much higher price here than across the Atlantic.
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