The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-08
Automotive Activities
 Throughout the World

Belgium has commission of motorcui- ture.
 The rStriet of Columbia has 5O,OOo motor cars.
 The first taxicabs were placed on the streets of London in 19o5
 Cuha purchased 7sO motor trucks in this country last year.
 Highways to cost $5,0o0,ooo are now un- Ge.' construction in Georgia
 American manufacturers lead the world lin designing automobiles.
 The average length of life of an au- tomobne is six and one-half years.
 City couneimen in Philadelphia are 10 have one or more automobiles for inspee- tion work.
 Automobiles were barred from travel in Central Park, New York city, twenty years ago.
 The high-water mark for imports of au- tomebles 10 the United States was ss'- S37 .l00 in 191f
 Nine powerful motor fire aparatuses were recently exported from the United States to rokio, Japan.
 The average output of motor vehicles for 1919 in the United States was 6o5 per working day, In Trance a pedestrian hit by motor vehicle can te arrested and brought to trial for obst-ucting the traffic. Rio de Janeiro, with a population of approximately i.too.0Oo, mas a motor ca for every 4oo persons witrin it's borders
 Approximately S0C.o0O motor trucks are operating in the area from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific, and from Canada to Mexico.
 The Detroit automobile show, to me held February II tc 2i. will cover twice rne flor space of any previous event in Michigan
 Gasoline nd lubricating oils in Mo
 rocco may be purchased at practically the same prices as in most European coun ries
 Mrs. Edward c Griffith of New York city is the first woman to obtain from the Cuban government lieense to drive an automobile on that island. Johann Nruehei, former personal chauf- feur of William Hohenzollern. has been employed as a motor truck driver by the American Red Cross at Riga, Finland 1, With the rapidly growing business of motor cars and trucks along the Pacific coast, large factory is to be built for
 the production of automobiles in Los An geIes Cal.
 British, manufacturers of motor cars selling from $1cO0 to s4O00, prominently ad- vcrtise that a self-starter is included. It is not unusual to see a driver crank irg up a S15.eQc car because it has no starter F1nanCfal ClrC IeS tnrOuBnoul tHS Nou'i- 1 try Jlace the 192' demand for motor vehicles as follows: Passenger cars, min mum, 1895, ,00o; maximum. S.070,oo0: trucks, , mirimum, 325, GOO; maximum, 3T5,000. ] With total of 5000 to be divided | among the first ten cars to finish in the seventh international 500-mile automobile
 race at Indianapolis which will be held 1 in May, s20,0oo will go to the winner of the race.
 The latest production in motor trucks 1 is a huge five-ton funeral car now in op- | eration in Detroit. 1t has seating ca pacity of 4c people, length of twenty-seven i feet and provided with separate com paItmeut for the casket. l For interurban use, the latest produc-
 tion in gasoline engine propelled street cars are geared to attain speed Of l seventy miles an hour, having all de-
 vices for safety The construction IS largely of alloy steel and aluminium l The highway weather service, one of the new enterprises of the unitd States