Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-25

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Tho World.
The State OF Ohio has $1,000
motor vehicles.
Over 40U different trades now use
motor trucks.
About $4,000 motor trucks pro-
duced last year.
The Lincoln highway is the long
est road in the world.
Chauffeurs make an average OF
SIS week in England.
Piedmont is the center of the au-
tomobile industry in Italy. A.
Cleveland. O., had II gasoline au-
tomobiles i'll 1900.
There are now less than 100000
motor mechanics in the United
States.
Motor vehicles exported during
1919 aggregated $ll0,000,000 in value.
In April, 1896, the first sale OF
motor vehicle in the United States
was recorded.
Over 6,500,000 of the worlds T.
N844. 900 automobiles are now made in
the United >ta.eS. A..
A traffic policeman in Chicago or
dered the first automobile of Mich
igan avenue in 1895.
There are l23 automobile makers
listed in the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce.
Approximately 100000 carloads of
motor cars were handled by the
railroads during 1919.
The motor car carries more pas
scngers than all the steam railroads
in the United States.
Alden, in the Red Sea region. has
l29 motor cars, SO motorcycles, and
7 motor lorries.
Pennsylvania led the nation in
1919 in the total mileage Of con-
tracts for road construction.
More than 500 permanent motor
truck lines are now established
throughout the United States.
Seventy-seven per cent Of all the
motor cars in use in the United
States cost less than $1,000 each.
II is estimated that the French
automobile production for 1920 will
be 100000 cars, against 10000 in 1914.
A decrease in the numberfof cases
of insanity, especially among women
on farms. is credited to the auto
mobile.
Baltimore, Nd, is TO have an au-
tomobile manufacturing plant with
an output of from 5000 to 5000
cars.
America and American products
are to be advertised in the Dutch
East Indies by motion pictures on
motor trucks.
Twenty-tl,ree cities in southern
California have provided free camp
irg grounds for the use of auto
mobile tourists.
Many of the larger cities of Amer
ica and Europe do not permit car
tracks on their finest streets, but
use the popular motor bus lines.
On September I, 1919, $40 automo-
biles were registered in Martinique,
French Vest Indies.
For the first time in the history of
the National Automobile show, the
United States army is listed among
the exhibitors at Washington, D. c.
San Francisco has been chosen as
the meeting place of the National
Traffic Officers association OF
America. which will be held in Au-
gust, 1920.
The greatest number Of trucks ex-
ported in one calendar year left the
United States in 1915, when 22,0o4
were shipped to European countries.
In China the use Of motor vehicles
is increasing at Shanghai, Tientsin
and Pekin. Motor cars and trucks
of American manufacture predomi-
nate in all three cities.
The New York City Fire depart
ment is to add S33O0OO worth Of
modern motor fire-fghting appara-
tus to replace the horse-drawn
equipment now in service in the de-
partment.
Traffic on the (French) Moroccan
is very large. In addition
to the transport of passengers by
private or public automobiles. the
roads permit an important move
ment of merchandise by motor
trucks.
Americas first automobile. in
vented. designed and built in 1898,