The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-03
AUTOMOTIVE ACTIVITIES
 TIJpnIICHnITT THE WOPV

AOIOMOlItE AGllNllI IES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
 Paris has forty-four motor bus lines
 Insurance for automobiles was first written in England in 1893.
 Passenger automobiles have become indispensable to country doctors
 In Pennsylvania 1,069,60S persons hold permits to drive motor vehicles.
 The valuation of motor vehicles in Canada is estimated at $5oo.0oo.o0o.
 There are approximately 250.000 motorcycles in use In the United States.
 Motor trucks are registered the same as passenger cars in twelve states In the union.
 Texas with 1y.sss miles of roads leads all other states In the union In highway mileage.
 The Ohio State University has new jhree-hour course in m0torA Six types of vehicles arc used.
 Motor car registrations In Canada arc reported to be increasing at the rate of twenty per cent a year.
 More than fifty per cent of the soo.- 600 motorists in England are mem bers of the mot or union of London.
 As a means of preventing dust, road engineers in France recommend the planting of trees along roadsideS.
 Motor trucks of all types from one- half ton to five tons arc operated on farms throughout the United States.
 A new motor tourists camp In Den- yer. Col, will accommodate 5000 cars and about 5000 individual tourists.
 CIV Mexico and Nevada have less than one car for each mile of highway Rhode Island has twenty-one cars for every mile.
 The average fee collected for each passenger or commercial vehicle In the United States in 1919 was $S.54.
 Three hundred and fifty thousand people are employed In Detroit and nearby towns in the automOtivo in- dustry.
 Every state in the union except Min pesota makes provisions for some definite form of annual state motor registration.
 Among the latest inventions Is an automatic oiler to keep storage bat teries of automobiles supplied with distilled water.
 In Paris the department of the Seine has planned to take over the street car and auto bus lines. beginning next year.
 Each infantry unit of the new Pennsylvania National Guard is to be allotted one three-ton motor truck by the war department
 In the traffic division of the police department of New York City there are 1l3 men. assigned to duty In the motorcycle squad.
 Ohio is leading with the largest gain ia motor car registrations for the past year. Oklahoma and West Virginia 3hsre >honors for big gains.
 Five hundred towns in Great Brit ain are to be linked in one commercial motor transport system. About GOO agents will act as clearing houses.
 In the metropolitan area of London sS8 persons were killed In street &C., cidents last year. Of this number SIS were killed during the day and seven- fy-fivefat night.
 In Pittsburg. Pa., during the three son--May. June and JuIy-three gar ages were erected to one dwelling hou:t
 The Automobile Club of Soutehrn California is erecting series of warn Ing signs designed to encourage both drivers and pedestrians to the utmost 7 care and safety.
 An ocean going freighter recently sailed from Toledo. O.. with . cargo of 4s2 crated automobiles for South America. The trip Is of special signifi- canoe because of the lakes to- the sea deep-water project
 Portable vaccum cleaners. especially designed for automobiles, is the latest addition to motor equipment. It is operated from the exhaust of the car. which creates 8 suction three times stronger than that of the average household yaccum cleaner.
 For the removal of snow and to keep the streets open for traffic un- der an conditions of winter weather