The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
AUTOMOTIvE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
It costs $65.5O to register an automo-

It costs $6550 to register an automo- bile in Havana.
 France has 47 different manufactur CTS of motor cars.
 Four per cent of the worlds auto mobiles are found in Canada.
 Rhode Island has 16 motor vehicles for every mile of road.
 Chicago has an "Old Timers Club of men of the automobile trades
 There are no more than 12 motor trucks in Connstantinople. Turkey.
 Detroit Mich, ranks first in the pro- duction of low priced motor cars.
 The American Legion has organized Motor Transport Club in New York City
 Since the close of the war 120 new motor truck plants have been estab- lished in Kansas City, Mo.
 Motor truck freight service out of Toledo, O., has been extended to points in Michigan and Indiana.
 Widespread interest was taken throughout Scotland during the recent motor show held in Glasgow.
 Merchants in the Province of Seville, Spain, have subscribed for $250,000 worth of American motor trucks.
 Exports of automobiles and parts, in cluding tires and engines, have in 2O years aggregated S1,000, 900, ,000.
 One automobile stage line operating out of Los Angeles, Cal has 67 buses and carries over 500 passengers daily
 Ruppers Circus will move about the country this year on q complete flee tof motor trucks of '2 F tons each and trailer attachments. With one e-sixteenth of the worlds population, the United States has ten times as many motor vehicles as all the rest of the world. t,nJi -4y6x aTt nrPGenfed the marshals and leading generals of that country the motor cars they used during the war.
 Receipts of the automobile division of the Pennsylvania state highway de- partment during 1919 reached total of $5,090, 64569
 In some fthe larger rubber tire factories in Akron, O., there are entire | departments of mute persons. Thelr work is of high standard. l Chased as an expert in pneumatics, 1 Josef Hofmann the celebrated plan ist, is the inventor of shock -absorber which has been patented in Europe.
 Two companies are planning to oper- ate motor bus lines along Broad street and adjoining traffic lanes in Philadel- phia on a five-cent basis.
 The first transcontinental automobile l tours was made in sixty-three days between May and July $. 1903. by pr. H. Nelson Jackson and Sewell F Crocker.
 in the recent auction sale of govern ment automobiles, motorcycles ane trucks at Fort Jay, Governors Island l New York
 The London "growler" types oi horse drawn cab drivers are fast dls appearing from the streets of the Eng | nOplIlaTltX O taxicabs.
 Representative from Africa, Aus tralia. New Zealand and South Ameri
 ca were strong bidders in the expor field at the recent motor truck show
 in Chicago,
 II Glenn H. Curtiss. the inventor of th' ! airplane. has motor bungalow. ;. ] which. in compactness and servlceanli ity far surpasses any vehicle yet pro duced for outdoor life.
 The state senate of Kansas recently passed a bill to make the penalty 10
 theft of an automobile Imprisonment
 for from five to fifteen years. Tn house already had passed the bill Prince of Wales highway will b.
 the name of the road now under con struction between Ottowa and Pres cott. which will link up the Canadian
 capital wit thhe highways of New 1orl
 state.
 The Massachusetts highway commls
 sion. with an international reputation
 as a leader in matters pertainingsto tn construction of roads, and thet maintenance. was formed in 1892. During the recent blizzard in the eas baby" tanks and tractors were em ployed in New York and Philadelphi to keep the public highways clear. b pulling vehicles out of the deep snow new meter device which measure the load placed on motor trucks being tested at Akron, O, It is apple { to the truck and the weight of tn
 load is registered and recorded auto
 matically.
 Ni Roads and Remembrance is ne' type of highway planned in variou
 parts of the country. The scheme ir
 voIved is planting memorial trees alon 1.-the roads for men in the service as
 national honor roll.
 A movement has been started l,
 Great Britain, backed mostly by Britis manufacturers to bring pressure upo | the Board of Trade to forbid the in tportatio nof Americana made motor Vt l hicles.
 Ii During the world war the Canadian | distilled a gasoline substitute froi r waste straw The Greeks ran thei r motors on liquid distilled from tree In Sweden motors were operated o
 fish oil Turkey moved motor truck
 n,, .,arSt.4rd oil and Tho Germans uSp