The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-21

W. C. Scott. general manager of the Reliance Auto company. was laid rr last week with a severe cold.
 The S1 Tire company has opened a branch in Ensley.
 The Bisseil Motor company has q branch in Mobile now. where the sale of Rec and Marmon cars is looked after.
 The BuncA-MOrrow Motor Car
 company has sale of kOkOmO
 tires on at the present time that
 reaehes the peak of low prices. For
 the price of ono tire, you get two.
 It's the snsne way with tubes Or
 if you buy just one tire yOu get
 discount of 50 per cent. The tires
 in this sale are all high grade,
 first-ciass tires and there are no
 seconds nor blemished goods in the
 sale Bunch-Morrow wants to clean
 out their tire stock and the chances
 are they will have difficulty
 in doing it with such low prices
 prevailing.
 The Elgin Six announces a new coupe as an addition to their line. Tne Ewart- Brewer Motor company is expecting to set one of these coupes in during the present week and will take keen de- light In showing it.
 The Preston Motors Corporation has a motion picture showing the factory and the various operations in the building of their product, the Premoca- Magic Six" This film was shown in Eessemer in the motion picture houses last week.
 
 The Consolidated Motor company had & rather disastrous fire in the second floor of their building at Twenty-third
 In Philadelphia motor trucks are not permitted over Chestnut street, the fash ionable shopping district. except in the block in which delivery is to be made.
 One automobile factory in the United States produced 99,967 automobiles during the month of October. The record day was October 2e, when 4.6SS cars were built, a rate of one car every 1S11 sec onds.
 On account of the high cost of gasoline in South Africa, which rate is Sl.l2 an imperial gallon q Ills American gallon)- automobiles use compound or refuse from the sugar cane mills.
 In France manufacturers of motor ve- h1cleS are attempting tO ScifC NiS hN~~ ing crisis by constructing large automo- piles which, like Pullman cars, may be transformed into sitting or bed rooms at will. Kitchcnettes and bath rooms are also installed.
 Sadi Iecointe, the aviator who won the Gordon Bennett cup for aviators, re gently established what is declared to pc an automobile record for 200 metres. From a standing Lecointe made the dis- tance in IS 3-5 seconds. It was his first attempt at automobile racing.
 The school board in Cimarrow, kan.' employs teachers as chaufeurs Tn con solidated schools paying them oo cents an hour The busses run on regular schedule. and the motor routes are so laid out that the busses call at the home of each child. Truancy is impossible.
 At inc fourteenth motor exhibition re- gently held at the Olympia in London more than 90 types of autonopsies were slited by the British. The United states was second with Al cars. France has 2o exhibits, the Italians lc and the Belgians, Tn,tch and Swiss one each. America had the distinction of showing the lowest priced automobile. !
 new telephone and telegraph system designed primarily to check automopile thieving is now in process or instaiiA'ioi' tn Maryland. When completed, II is stated. the system will render Maryianu absolutely immune from this form or bandit. In every town, hamlet or city throughout the state call boxes are oe- ing erected which will be in direct con nection with the main office in Baltimore. modern moving van of special ln- closed body mounted on 3-S1x-ton chas- sis which is used almost exclusiveiy TOT long hauls between Boston, New fork' Baltimore and Washington carries complete furnishings of six room house-1,O0O cubic feet of cargo space being available. The monster motor truck is fitted with sleeping quar- ters for three men, which enaoieS oho ran to dive while the others sleep.