The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-02-01

st. Louis, No, is to have a motor
bus line.
The Province of Ontario, Canada,
has 10000 motor cars
In Japan, Tokyo and Osaka are the
the principal users of motor cars.
There are 176,466 licensed automo-
bile drivers In New York City.
Motor trucks were first introduced
into Turkey during the world war.
The membership Of the Society of
Automobile Engineers is $500.
Motor traffic trucks are now oper-
ating in twenty-six foreign countries.
There are 1887 miles of first-class
automobile roads in French Morocco.
Privately owned automobiles in Con-
stantinople, Turkey, do not exceed So
The first motor truck operated was
used TO haul heavy artillery in France.
Motor vehicles increased SO per cent
during the past year in New York
City.
Robert Allison, of Port Carbon, Pa,
bought the first automobile on April
/. 1898.
One Of the greatest industries of
Italy is the manufacturing Of automo-
biles.
Quotations for the latest passenger
automobiles run in price from $715 to
$1,000.
Twenty-one passenger cars and two
motor trucks were exported to Iceland
last year.
The latest production in taxis is
motorcycle sidecar, entirely inclosed,
which carries one passenger.
In 1890 there was not single
stretch Of twenty-five miles of good
highway anywhere in the United
States.
Electrically heated gloves were one
of the novelties exhibited at the re-
cent London Olympia Automobile
Show.
There are no less than $4,000 men
employed in one of the largest auto.
mobile manufacturing plants in De-
troit, Michigan.
A lively contest is now on between
the cities of Detroit and Cleveland as
to which is to be the leader in the au-
eomobile industry.
The California State Highway COM
mission will spend 100000 a month.
or a total of nearly 100000 for
good roads during this year
The duty on automobiles and auto
mobile parts was recently reduceo
from 10 per cent ad valorem to 40 per
Nebraska and Iowa divide honors in
leading with the greatest number OF
motor cars per capital Statistics in
dictate one for every six persons.
The movement for better highways,
both in the United States and Canada,
/ sto be given impetus through an
international tour mapped out for
July.
Special city tax of $50 a year for
motor vehicles with a seating capacity
above twelve passengers is imposed on
operators of jitneys in Kansas City,
Mo.
A general British automobile COM
pany, with capital of nearly two mil
lion dollars. is to operate in Turkey.
The company will operate taxicabs,
omnibuses and trucks.
The leading countries importing
motor cars from the United States
have been Denmark Spain, British
India, Australia and New Zealand,
South Africa and Argentina
A new motor truck base is being
built upon which the Liberty Bell will /
be placed when used in parades, or
for transportation to and in other |
cities than Philadelphia.
The first automobile road race, run !
IN France in 1894, was known as the /
Parish ouen race over a course of /
eighty miles. 1t had an entry list of t
no cars of which - were steam.
To accommodate children, who live I
N the remote districts, one of the /
hartford, Conn, churches has put into
vice two passenger buses, which
'".ne regular trips on Sundays
me hrst automobile show in 1900
~sr- o. exhibitors of complete motor