The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
AUTOMOTIvE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Europe has approximately 437,O00 auto
 mobiles
 Ontario is the center of the automo-
 bile industry in Canada. Automobiles stolen during 1919 had an | insurance value of $5000O00.
 Motor fire aparatuses are replacing hdfse-drawn vehicles in Boston. l Elopements in motor cars were first an lECunced in Germany twenty years ago.
 The removal of small houses by motor | trucks and trailers is becoming quite
 common. 1 Shortage of motor cars in England has
 brought about great deal of profiteering
 there.
 With fair treatment, the average motor truck should run in excess of 100,O eco miles. 1 Nearly $75,000O00 worth of motor carf
 and supplies were sold in Omaha last year.
 1 Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania are near | ly alike in the number of registrations oi
 motor vehicles. '9
 Road trainsY is new name coined
 through extension of use of trucks with two or more trailers per truck. l Over the modern roads in and near : Foochow, China, there are 15 motor cars 1 operated in addition to the 2,000 jinriki- 1 sha
 l Despite the high cost of gasoline, taxi cab fares are cheaper in Buenos Aires, s. A., than any other of the worlds larger cities. More than 1000 automobile owners and mechanics have received training in motor courses at the College of the City of New York
 Concrete roads, with curcves on 300- i fet radius, eliminating right angle cor ners, are under construction in Illinois. 1 The refrigerator motor truck, designed especially for handling of perishable fools, is the latest development in the automobile industry. 1 The Czecho-Slovak Automobile Club of Prague will hold its twelfth annual motor exposition July IT to 9 for domestic and foreign cars.
 Designed to haul trailers with supplies about factories and storage yards, gase- lline-propelled tractors for use in indus- trial plants are becoming popular. Residents of the west end of Milton, Mass, have organized a motor transpor- tation company which is owned exclusive ly by inhabitants of that suburb. All records were broken in the ship ment of motor vehicles to England whei. the Adriatic recently docked at Sou6h- | ampton with an assignment. of 131 com mercial cars.
 By installing miniatr(e laboratories on motor trucks, a series of tours is being
 
 ine the water in wells throughout the old battle area
 Approximately 100000 tons of supplies are hauled daily by the 975000 motor trucks throughout the United States, or 330, 100000 tons in a year of 300 working days.
 The Krupp works at Essen, upon which the German armies chiefly depended for ordnance duriMs tn war, are now manu- featuring automobiles and agricultural machinery.
 Through the replacement of horse power by motor power, wild horses are no , longer found on ranges in New Mexico :, The small Mexican COW ponies are rapidly diminishing.
 l Believing that motor vehicles w6Ssd l play an important part in future wars prize of $20,0 900 was offered by the Ger
 man government for the best war auto
 mobile twenty years ago. | The subject of national policy and
 plan for further highway development
 will be brought up at the nationas vvrs- ventions of both of the dominant politi. cal parties in the United States Minneapolis and St. Paul are facing ths l biggest year in their histories of mool truck transportation. Sixty motor trucks
 with a carrying capacity of five railroad