The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-14
AUTOMOTIVE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

London has 5,7l6 taxicabs and 331s motor omnibuses.
 In Greece one automobile is registered for every 5000 persons.
 Motor trucks are able to pull four times as much as they can haul Thirty-two states in the union employ convict labor on public roads.
 The automobile industry in France em- ploys approximately 100000 people.
 Motor car receipts of all kinds for 1920 have reached S,5oo,eoo in New York state
 Denmark is said to be the most thickly populated country for motor vehicles in all Europe.
 Motor trucks are used by no less than 2o06 express companies throughout the United States. Proceeds of the taxes levied on motor vehicles in England provide . sum of nearly s35, 900 900.
 During the first half of the present year the number of motor cars imported into Uruguay reached 2204.
 Passenger automobiles are manufac- tured in twenty-five states in the union. There are 157 varieties of cars,
 In New York contracts for building twelve state highways were recently awarded at cost of s1,313943.
 The average stay of the ten thousand motor cars which visited Yellowstone Ma tional Park this season was from six to seven days.
 Merchandise taxi Is a new vehicle in operation in Paris. The machine carries parcels from various business houses at sc much per kilometre.
 During the first eight months of 1920. foreign interests purchased $233, 420 1SS worth of motor vehicles, tires and access sories in the United States.
 In Georgia the new color scheme adopted for the state automobile license tags for 1921 will be a watermelon pink background with green figures
 Work of highway construction, trans portaton and motor production is find ing place for thousands of men trained from a collegiate and vocational stand point
 Fire Marshal Elliot of the Philadel- phia Fire Departmet has used the same automobile for the last II years. The veteran car has registered mileage of 146,0O0 miles. 4
 without arms operates a motor car by the use of slings and hooks also has ! the distinctioh of being the worlds only nrinless aviator.
 Statistics show that the annual average operation cost of motor trucks on farms is from s460 to $470 The trucks averaged FIT miles year at a cost of 16.5 to II cents per mile.
 Among the exhibitors at the 1920 auto mobile salon. 10 he held at the Cnn-rn- dore New York city, November 14-2l will be new types and styles of cars from Belgffm England and France.
 An automomible tire ring has been in- sSnted that can be taken off one shoe And transferred to another in 90 seconds H is made in two parts with two other pieces of the rim hinged together.
 The manufacture of rubber tires for vehicles was first introduced on England in 1850. Tires were placed in wheelharrows to prevent the noise in warehouses, at railroad stations etc:
 Mexico is one of the largest Latin American customers for automobiles, the 1922 exports of motor vehicles from the United States to Mexico having been ex- ceeded only By those to Cuba, Argentina and Brazil.
 For the benefit of persons who desire to take their cars to Florida this year and who are not familiar with road con- ditions, personally conducted motor tour is being planned to leave Boston. { December 8. for the south. The tour Is limited to 50 cars.
 Great Britain k Formulating plan for Finding work for 5ooooo unemployed men during the winter The scheme provides for the construction of roads in the vs- cinity of large towns where the high ways are urgently required to relieve congested traffic
 In England motorcycles with specially designed sidecar bodies are transporting