The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-14
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 DIGEST IA&- 7:
AUTOMOTIvE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Canada has nearly 1900 motor tractors.
 Pennsylvania has more than 10.coO grade crossings
 Automobile tires are now manurac- tured in Japan.
 Passenger automobiles in Copenha gen, Denmark. total ,2ss cars.
 Japanese in Oregon own s2 automobiles and 161 motor trucks
 More than 5000 farmers own motor trucks in the United States
 Taxation of automobiles is heavier than any other kind of property.
 Motorists in England pay license tax of s annually per horse power.
 France used nearly 75O0O,OOO gallons of motor spirits during 1919 Of the 4,455 motor cars stolen in ChI- lcago last year( 2.1sS were recovered.
 There are two and half cars for every mile of road in the United States State license fees for ,lnotor vehicles in the United States range from sS to SIS
 In the Philippines there are nearly 10. : mobile travel.
 There are more than 100000 people em- ployed in the rubber tire industry in the 1 United States.
 Pennsylvania is regarded as having one of the most drastic headlight anti-glare laws in the country.
 In Denmark motorists are permitted to use an automobile license plate as long as it is distinguishabie. Seventy five automobiles will be sent to
 Baptist missionaries who labor amo1,l cannibals in foreign countries As in other British countries the left rule of the road and the right-hand drive is the custom in New ealand Since January l, in r states there have
 been 467 motor vehicle bills introduced before the legislatures. More than 200 American-made motor trucks are operated on the west coast
 of Africa by an English syndicate. ] Statistics show that two-thirds of the automobiles in the Dominion of Canada are owned in rural communities.
 A new automobile insurance rate, sf- fective in the New England and eastern states, will be in force March 15. The National Automobile Dealers As sociation is composed of over 10000 mem bers throughout the United States. The number of passenger automobiles i in Wisconsin increased IS per cent and motor trucks 60 during the past year. In southern California 66.123 enamefed metal automobile signs are scattered over an area of 70,399 square miles. On one gallon of gasoline new rec ord was made when an automobile GOV cred B miles in recent test at New Orleans.
 In North and South e. na the courts have ruled that & pede.5.rian struck ky a motor car can sue for the possession of the vehicle.
 Motor vehicles have proved to the av- craze farmer that he can take care of 4ot to 300 acres of land without going out side the family for labor
 For the transportation of race horses luxurious motor truck has been pro duced. with the interior lighted ye7ec tricity and sides heavily padded. 1 To encourage all steps in relieving 4t
 overcrowding of street cars in Phladel l phia, Mayor Moore is in favor of the op { eration of motor buses in that city. 1 In German automobile factories junior engineers, with full academic and prac tical training. are paid as little as s17 B
 a month. Clerical workers receive stil less.
 A big lumber concern in Flagstaff Ariz., purchased two motor tanks iron the war department for use in the great upine forests of northern Arizona. Each tank will displace thirty horses and four teen men.
 With an average consumption of about 800 gallons, or 12.3 barrels, of gasofeSe year per automobile, it is estimated that at least 100000 barrels will be used by motor vehicles in the United States in 1920
 The latest achievement of the motor car was made when the extensive Gobi