The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-29
Actiyieies Throughout
 the World

the World Gasoline costs s1 a gallon in Spain. Calcutta. India. has s.5s7 motor vehicles.
 Nevada has two motor cars for every three miles of road
 There are eight automobile factories in Barcelona, Spain. Farmers in the state of Pennsylvania own S1, 5o5 motor cars.
 Motor experts claim Illinois as the birthplace of the automobile Enrolment at the Michigan state Auto School in 1919 was s,oS1.
 In Para. Brazil, s5 per cent of motors in use are of American manufacture. The Pacific states have one-sixth of tho motor cars in the United States.
 American made motor vehicles continue to predominate in British India.
 The United States postoffice depart ment first used motor mail wagons in 1898.
 have been eliminated in the state of New York.
 Colonel Helen R. Bastedo of New York City, is in command of the Motor Corps of America.
 Motor hacks" are gradually taking place of the public horse drawn vehicles in Raleigh, N. C.
 Since 1so6 the number of motor vehicles has multiplied forty times in Pennsyl- vania.
 Tn Japan the traffic speed regulation of a motor car is controlled by the width of the road.
 During the first week of this year. 1,ol5 new mmehers joined the Automobile As- sociation in England
 The number of motor truck dealers n Kansas City, Mo. has jumped from 29 to A in the last year. Bullock transportation, which is con sldered exceedingly slow in Bombay India, Is giving place to the motor trucK; Motor cars for use of Scotland Yard detectives have been provided for by the commissioner of police in England. With sl0 as a minimum. registration fees for passenger automobiles IS for'y cents per horsepower in Pennsylvania. During the five and half years or war in France, not a single automobile was sold to a private individual in that country
 The largest company in the world TO manufacture automobile axles sprlhgs' bearings and rims is to be built in CieVe~ land, Ohio@
 The daily operating cost Of motor truck is from SIP to s20 day. inciudlns maintenance and all items entering in'o operating costs. Many of the raw materials, including the magneto and electric systems or the Spanish automobile production, are i'- ported from the United States. Tn Gern,anv skilled workmen formerly occi,n,ed in the manufacture of arms ana ammunition. are now being trained 10 turn out high grade parts for automo- piles. . conducting an investigation of the pos- sfble development of motor trucks for the transportation of produce and pas sengers.
 General Pershing has three motor transport corps sergeants who are as- l signed as chauffeurs. Each wears Tour service stripes and all are expert motor mechanics. The first motor truck to be produced I ,r America on a commercial scale was Fin Cleveland, Ohio, in 1898, when eight 5-horse power commercial vehicles were made and marketed, By a s3,ooo,0oo project for the construc- ton of an enormous terminal, eight large rubber companies in Minneapolis. Minn., are to have n central sales building mak- Ing that city the second largest rubber center in the United States British Columbia, although separated from the mother country by 5000 miles. has maintained tho same old-fashioned ruie of the road that prevails there Traf- fic takes the left hand side of the street instead of the right. The rest of Canada. except Halifax, has long since adopted the more modern fashion.
 To reduce tho thefts of automobiles. a bill was recently introduced in Wash ington for the osta blishing of a federal motor registration bureau in the depart rnent of justice. with registrars In each of the states, No person would be per mitted to sell an automobile without certificate from the registrar showing 1t was his property,
 The first automobile show ever held In the United States consisted of three "horseless earriasssp exhibitNd hv c'r-' GUS man at state fair in Columbus. O.,
 in tha faii efflssS, The curious and un- believing crowds paid 10 cents to witness ths vehicles moving over the ground without any e.sinis means Of locomo- tion.
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