The Washington times., 1920-01-10
Automobile Activities Through
out the World. -

France is the center OF the motor
car industry in Europe.
Automobile for hire in Japan are
In excess OF those fsr private use.
The first automobile used In Ken
lucky was on October IL, 1898.
Two dollars q gallon Is the price OF
gasoline in Nyasssiand. East Africa.
Automobiles with a right-hAnd
drive are the popular cars In Buenos
Aires. E.,..
There are nearly 10000 public
motor vehicles registered In New
York city, .F L
At the recent Paris Automobile
salon. there were i3s,555 paid admis-
Farm motor tractors are not sub
Ject TO a license fee in the State OF
Illinois.
The speed limit in The cities In
Chile IL twenty-five. kilometers (16.0
miles) per hour.
Many minor city in the United
states haA more automobiles than the
whole OF China.
Forty per cent of the motor We
hlcles I'm operation today are owned
and used by farmers.
Buyers of motor cars In England
and France have to wait from six to
eIEnt months 1oT utiNeIys
motor car was presented TO the
Bishop Of oxford. 10 assist him in his
diocesan work In England.
The first automobile liability in
surance policy was written in 1893,
and the first fire policy In 1907.
There ade two factories In Mex
leo producing Automobile tires at
rate OF more than hundred day.
Twenty motor car manufacturers
are equipping all or part OF their line
OF closed cars with car heaters.
Nine automobile fire engines and
two motor trucks will be added to the
Richmond fire department In Virginia
A four cylinder American-made
passenger automobile for export trade
only is TO be built in the United
States.
For the delivery of kilograms, the
use OF automobiles. will replace boy
messenger carriers in Cleveland,
Ohio. ~
Exports of passenger cars have
doubled and truck exports have mul-
tipIied twelve times in the last five
years.
Dealers in Minneapolis. Mimi, did
$500. 900, 900 automobile business
last year-$5o. 600, 900 of which was
in trucks. H. a.
There are almost six times as
many motor cars and trucks now In
operation in this country asN there
were seven years ago.
with only per cent of the worlds
population, the United states pro-
duces So per cent Of the worlds auto
mobiles.
Plans for motor vehicle tunnels
and subways are under way at New
York. Chicago. Pittsburgh, Boston,
San Francisco, and New Orleans. 81
Up TO December 10. the motor
transport corps had disposed OF
total of 3,021 unserviceable motor
vehicles for s9S1 ,533.60.
Approximately 10000 farmers CO.
operative societies in the United
States arc potential rural motor eN-
press operators.
The Society Of Profe ssional Auto
mobile Engineers is an organization
Of chauffeurs in New York city. with
a membership OF more than 1000.
1t is proposed TO reduce the size
of the Roston Common, the most
sacredly guarded spot in Boston, TO
provide parking space for automo-
biles.
Steel channel tracks will be placed
on on of the prominent Connecticut
highways to permit the enormous in:
crease in weight OF loads carried by
motor trucks.
The estimated cost OF maintaining
and operating a wagon and team OF
horses is 80 cents a mile; the cost
of a motor truck is 10 cents for the
same distance.
Philadelphia IS the first city in the
State to adopt motorcycle sidecars
for its police force. Sixteen motor
cycles and thirty-two policemen VIII
comprise the squadron.
Closed passenger automobiles are
preferred in Japan. especially for
private use. on account OF the dust in
the streets and also because the
japanese women do not wear hats,
apd their carefully arranged coiffures
suffer considerably I'm open cars.
An automobile road is under con-
struction between Rio de Janeiro and
Petropolis, S. a. This highway.
twenty-five miles long, is expected to
prove one OF the most popular roads
in South America, since IL will AFFORD
fine panoramas of the surrounding
country.