The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-21

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 Motor vehicles in Algeria total around 9,eo0 cars.
 Wagons must carry lights at nights in New York state.
 1 Several firms in Austria are now manu- ] facturing motor blows.
 Wisconsin issued licenses to 1896 au- tomotive dealers last year. 1 There are 21 automobiles in the United States for each square mile. The average weekly wage in the auto mibile industry was $25.74 last year. The first automobile to be demonstrated in Peru reached Lima in 1907. In Canada, Ontario leads all provinces with a total of 15l ,754 automobiles More rubber is used in the automobile production than any other industry in the country
 Highway commissioners throughout ths country have started a campaign to curb road hogs"
 The United states has nearly five times as many automobiles as all the other countries combined
 i The Pacific coast states California, oregon and Washington have one motor
 car to every nine inhabitants ! During the fall of 19l9 automobiles wera | imported from the United States into
 Japan at the rate of 150 per month. | The tWenty-second anniversary of the l trst sale of a motor ear in the United
 States will be celebrated next month The oldest, largest and most important manufactory of automobiles in Barce-
 lonla, Spain, has an annual output of
 2,000 cars.
 Sales were made of nearly all of the f5O | passenger cars displayed at the twelfth annual automobile show in Louisville, KY crusade against reckless driving is nf fl1r lr.+@ gia Automobile Dealers Association IT Atlanta.
 Sixty million dollars will be spent upon
 the construction of good roads in tho
 province of Ontario during the next five years.
 Registration fees for automobiles 1T
 Auckland. New Zealand, cost s2.43, witt
 an additional charge of SEA for two
 license plates.
 Philadelphia has twenty regular motol
 truck routes radiating out of the cit,
 and more than 5000 truck operators actively engaged in the business.
 In western Samoa, motor vehicles were
 curiosity seven wears ago. Todd, ; there are forty nine passenger cars, nine teen motor trucks and six motor cycles , One gallon of gasoline of the GA tes. weighs held an ounce over six pounds } The A test gas weighs five pounds ana
 
 The largest factory in the world de
 voted exclusively to the manufacture )
 spark plugs is at Toledo, o. Thirty-fiv' . million plugs were produced last var. Approximation for an additional $100, 000,0O0 year for the next four years fo road building was recently proposed il bill introduced by Senator Chamber lain, Oregon.
 For the production of fabric one of tn, large dltOmnbiia tire ms rturin companies in the United States has al extensive cotton plantation in southe :! California;
 Officials of the Indianapolis Moto Speedway are in receipt of inquirie from German and Austrian automobil makers regarding entries for the 500 mile race to be held May 31 A special permit is required for tn operation of motor trains consisstinl Eof tractors and trailers not exceeding 100 feet in total length, between 8 | l m and a. m., in Milwaukee. Wis. Before the end of the year it is pre- dicted there will be passable north an south trunk roads extending from St John. N. B., to Miami. Fla. and iron Victoria, B. C., to san Diego, Cal. As a school for their instruction prio to the beginning of the 1920 road work 300 inspectors and other employees o  partment are conducting a two weeks conference at Harrisburg. To encourage a wider market for for eign automobil in this country. tn a reduction of Is per cent in tariff O ' imported ears costing S2.000 or more q was advocated by members of the Ma tional Automobile Chamber of Com merce.
 Utilized for a multitude of duties be i Si s,ln inc ha nd Q motor tractors on farms are kept bus 12 months out of the year. They han die ditchers, fill silos. saw wood an pull the huskng machines. Hundreds of motor lines have bee established throughout the countr T since the war as result of many rail roads discontinuing the operation Q branch lines because they had tease to be productive of revenue for thei \ maintenance.
 The National Automobile Chamber o Commerce. which is the representativ body of the industry in this countr. has in its offices in New York city H complete card index library of nor than 1Se,000 patents affecting automo piles There are also several thousan \ books and periodicals listed. Failure of the railroads to handle tn \ output of the big automobile factorie at Detroit. Mich. caused that city t be literally flooded with finished mo 4 tor vehicles Every available spac was utilized. from abandoned brew 4 cries to ball parks. and there are nov more than 1000 cars q day leaving tn lefty over the highways.