Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-24

1 provides the foundation for one of the worlds greatest utilities, the automo- bile.
 | In order to appreciate fully the pres 1, ent magnitude of the tire industry It IS only necessary to contemplate the pneumatic tire requirements Of the country during the present year. Conseryatively estimated, there will be in operation in the United states this year in the nefghborhooG of 750,O00 automobiles. There probably Will De more than this number. but three quarters of a million cars Is sound basis for calculation. Figuring that each car will require six tires for a years service. it will be seen that at least >,500,000 tires must be turned out by manufacturers to meet the demand Put these down at the average cost to consumer at $35 each and you get the years tire business. a sum close to $15S, 1000, GOO.
 Even the most optimistic trade ex- pansionfst could scarcely have fore seen a decade ago the tremendous strides that have been made in the tire industry in the last four or five years. And yet with the motor car bowling along on the crest of a great wave or universal popularity, it is not surpr1s- ing that the manufacture of tires should be in every sense proposition of millions.
 Millions of tires are required each year to shoe the ever increasing output ,, ed in tire factories, and additional mil lions are paid annually to Workmen who build tires. And the reason for this vast aggregate of resources is that length and breadth of the world are dependent upon tire service for large proportion of the convenienceS and pleasures of motor car operation.
 The taxicab service started in the city of Tokio is proving irnm mansely popular and promoters of the company state that each is earning daily av- craze of 1.50 yen ($15.75). Fifty cabs, with an average earning capacity of 1850 yen ($6.75) per cab per day, will enable the company to declares divi- dend of 20 per cent, so it is now real izing a profit of two and half times the estimated gain.
 E. Many of the smaller carriage com panies which have bought motor trucks have used great ingenuity in contrtVing to use their machines the largest pos- sibIe portion of the time and so get the maximum dividends out of them, It is quite common to employ them night and day. and on Sunday to fit them with special passenger bodies and use them as sightseeing cars.
 The rssent Atlanta automobile show not only paid all expenses, but each exhibitor will receive half the money spent for the space and there will still be S2, for a working fund.
 If there Is iinsit to tho life Of a motor truck it has not as yet been de= terrnined A large department store in London is oi5eFat ting 22 motor Ye= l1ic1es. which have travelled a tetaf of 111O,o00 miles, of an average or 50,o0o mile for each vehicle, One Of thass vehicles has averaged close to l2,0Oo miles per year for eight years. and it's i- i9rfaa a good service today as 1t did at the be- ginning.
 The fe12-191 season will probably see about 300 o00 cars built-and they all run.
 To Louis Disbrow of New York city has been awarded the dirt track cham pionship of the 1912 racing season During the year he took part in about one hundrer races, and his percentage of victories in open contests easily led that of any other driver. In the ofh- cia1 records announced by the Amerl- can Automobile association D1sbrow was given credit for lowering elgnl worlds marks.
 Bob Burman and Barney Oldfeld, the veterans of the track game, lowered one worlds record each. Spencer Wishart stood next to DisbroW, having lowered three long distance records.
 Disbrow's work for the last season has added a very intereSt ting chapter to racing Aside from the sensational time made by him in the various race meets ne established a record for travelling and for a number of days of racing that far surpassed any prev1ous per for1nance of car or driver. In eight months he raced on 43 different days and travelled more than 24,000 miles. Disbrow will again head the Case rac- ing team in 1913.
 
 At meeting of the contest board held at A. A. 4. national headquar- ters in New York Friday. Jan 10, 1913, the automatic disqualification of Ted dy Tetz1aff of Los Angeles, registered racing driver No. 166, for driving ex- hfbitions at an unsanctioned race meeting held at San Fernando. Cal, on Nov. 28, 1912, was definitely fixed to expire on May 2S, 1913.
 The presence of the famous French driver, Guyot, seated at the wheel Of the famous Sunbeam racer, the Eng fish car, which until recently held the records from six to twelve hours, made on the BrooIzlands track, is a possibil ity in the 500 mile race to be run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Memorial day
 Charles W. Sedwick director of the Motor Speedway, who recently return ed from Europe, where he visited the foreign factories in search of entries