The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-19
Travel. @ Transport
 Topics
A AulOMOTIVE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
Conducted by Goodrich

1 1AANO WONkO
 Michigan has state automotive school
 Farmers in the United States own E. ] 367,O00 motor cars l English motorists are now paying so I cents a gallon for gasoline LlQuified hydrogen gas is being tested
 as a coming fuel for motor vehicles In Illinois headlights must be dim whom within 25O feet of an approaching car.
 Only 10 per cent of the passenger auto- mobiles in the United States are used
 for pleasure.
 The New York Telephone Company
 operates a fleet of 935 motor vehicles for | repair work.
 l Passenger automobiles of American
 French and Italian makes are marketed
 in England.
 Jimmy Chy, native of Canton, China,
 is the only Chinese automobile-race
 driver in the world. l The Shah of Persia placed an order
 twenty years ago for a motor vehicle for his own use There are three and one half automo-
 piles for every mile of the T, ,0oo miles of
 public highways in Wisconsin 1 Philadelphia undertaken successfully
 operated an automobile funeral wagon | twenty years ago. "Left-hand turns" by motorists in the
 central sections of the city of Philadel., phia are to be abolished. ! Combined federal and state experdi- ! lures for road building may reach 2 total
 of s25o,000.000 this year. l Because of shortage of automobiles l in Europe. cars are selling at figures far beyond their actual value. | The average estimated repair biu for all automobiles in the United States
 amounts to $5O0.ooo a day. ! Norway has just commenced operating
 its first automobile factory. The output l is estimated at 200 cars a year. 1 It Is estimated that 1s.B0o. 900 gallons , of gasoline is used daily by motor | vehicles throughout tho United states. | In the vicinity of Detroit and nearby towns there are twenty-four automobile | factories and eighteen motor truck man.
 ufactories.
 ! Motor vehicle owners in tho United States contribute $75 year for every
 mile of road improved or unimproved, 1 Auto polo will be a special feature nt
 the state fair at Trenton. N, J.. from
 September 27 to October 1. inclusive | Tn the rural districts of Colorado ma children from their homes to public | schools
 l During the World war. Germany used l commercial alcohol. distilled from saw. | dust, and various kinds of waste veRe- table matter.
 More than 90 per cent of the tonnage of rail and water lines Ia transported over highways before reaching tho con- sumner. Hawaii has sufficient moinsses avail
 able to produce aooo,0oo gallons of motor alcohol-enough for all automobiles on the Island.
 Throughout the country the overall width of motor vehicles varies in differ ent states from 90 to 114 inches and tho | length from 30 to 65 feet. Army engineers have developed a nov ! type of searchlight. mounted on a ruhhef- 1 tired trailer, that can be pulled Rreat distances by motor truck. Since the armistce was signed, ewits- erland has become a country of second-
 hand motor vehicles. The machines arc
 brought from England. France. Germany | and Italy.
 Garage owners in Philadelphia are rs-
 ouired under the law to keep a record of the movements of all machines-time of
 arrival. length of stay and time ot leay- 1 ing.
 1 Japan is sending MT. K. Takatn. chief 1 engineer of the public works section of
 the Kanagawa Perfectual Office. to this
 countr, to study road building methods | and materials. Sig. Haugdahl. of Norway. during . speed trial held in Canada recently made 1 a record of 5 minutes 26 2-5 seconds for | five miles over a dirt track in an auto. mobile.
 l Automobile accidents are mostly caused hv the Sunday driver. and the Sunday driver is a person who operates a car
 once a week and works at other trades all the year through. Highways of Switzerland are of mac adam or concrete structure and are kent n excellent condition. Though the coun-
 'rv is hillv and mountainous, it is cov-' cred by a network of fine roads To core with the snow problem next
 winter. the Street C7ran'rg Department of Naw York city awarded a contract for 1 a1n five-tnn motor trrclrs of the auto ! matic type, at cost of more than $.- ooo0oo.