The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-13
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 DIGEST 
AUTOMOTIVE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Uruguay has motor car Tor every ifo inhabitants. Farm tractors are known as "agri- motors" in England. Shanghai, China, has a public motor truck service of twenty-five cars. The speed limit for automobiles in Japan is from 20 to 30 miles hour. The average sales of gasoline in Louis- vile, Ky, daily are placed at 60,0oo gall
 Ions.
 More than 25,OOO miles of highways were destroyed in France during the World War An allotment of s12,oo0,OOo has been made for improvements to the Lincoln Highway.
 Almost every farmer in the cotton belt section of Georgia owns one or more automobiles. No less than 3O,OO0 tractors will be used this year in the great agricuiturai districts of Canada. The New Icrk City police department uses a Betd.for. system in identifying the many makes of automobiles. Europeans claim that in America "The incentive behind the sales of % per cent
 of the automobiles is woman" A motor tractor was recently em- ployed to break ground for the first of 10000 school gardens in Chicago, HI. For the production of gasoline, over 21&OOo new oil wells have been drilled in the past ten years in the United States.
 Montevideo, the capital and chief city of Uruguay, takes more than half of
 all the automobiles imported into that country.
 Owners of small motor cars in France will have imposed through a new tax bill levies totaling 951 francs (normally s19C).
 Canvas houses built on light delivery chasses are helping to solve the hous- | ing problem in different parts of the country.
 The French government has come to l believe that the modern motor truck is 1 the greatest upbuilder of industry in | the world today American-made motor cars are used by the provincial governments of Sadee. | Thudamot Tayninh, Gocong and Cochin, | In China.
 One hundred and fifty tons of pack ages are handled daily at large mo- ] tor truck terminal and transfer-station in Minneapolis, Minn. American motor car owners are pay ing from s180O, GOO 900 to 2.400. 100000 an-
 nually for operating, maintenance and depreciation costs. Before a chauffeur's license will be issued in Cleveland, O., a new tariff or dinance provides for the taking of fin- ger prints of the applicant. Employed for short-haul delivery in large quantities of milk. eggs, and other perishable foods, motDr trucks are
 most popular around the big cities.
 J. W. Urschel, seventyfive years of age, recently returned to Toledo, O.,
 from a 1,790-mile motor journey, over
 which he drove himself the entire dis
 tance.
 Of the 5000 motor vehicles controlled
 by the Motor Transport Corps of the
 United States Army, disposition of 9S
 per cent or 3S,04S vehicles was made up
 to April 8.
 The Boston Chamber of Commerce and
 similar organizations in other parts of
 MaSsa chusettS are to begin a campaign
 of education to prevent motor vehicle
 accidents.
 Unearthed by the police of different
 cities from Boston to Chicago. a we'll
 organized band of motor thieves has
 been working on a large scale by dis
 assembling and rebuilding cars for sale.
 Gaston Chevrolet won the 5Oo-mile au-. tomobile race at Indianapolis. He main tained an average speed of SS.16 miles per hour and for his long grind received the speedway prize of $20,000
 It has been advised that France is no place for automobiling this summer. Gasoline costs 90 cents a gallon. lubri. cant oil about two dollars and spare
 parts cannot be purchased except In Paris.
 Inner tubes for automobile tires are made by the yard and at one large rub Der factory in Ohio. a gang of me,, on callendering machine rolled out 2,- 450 yards of tube stock during the month of February.
 As part of a course in automotive en- glneering alterations. are being made in one of the public schools in PhiIa- delpha. Pa. for runway to be con- structed so that students can "dissect' a motor car or truck.
 During the professlonal session of the