The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-12-04

cools itself instead of using a fan
The Boston Elevated Railway COM
pany purchased 80 motor vehicles, at
cost of $13S,O0O, displacing As
horses.
Armored motor trucks are to be
operated by the United States post
office department in delivery and
collection of mail
Massachusetts, has $4,000 miles OF
highway divided into main through
routes, city. town and village streets.
and suburban roads.
Exports of motor vehicles to Mex
leo for the first eight months of 1921
amounted to 237 per cent of the same
period last year.
To attract women motorists, a Ger
man builder experimenting with
fancy interiors of limousines, has APP
piled a design of ancient Egypt.
While Iowa leads all other states
in the total number of automobiles
on farms, Nebraska has the highest
percentage in comparison to the num-
Der of farms.
A two-wheeled fire apparatus,
equipped with chemical tanks, has
been designed for use in small towns
that can be hauled to a fire as a
trailer by an automobile
Thirty states in the union are plan
ming the construction of 5000 miles
of highways during the next five
months. thus offering employment to
some 100000 men.
A motor fire apparatus is manu-
featured in Germany for use in very
heavy snow Runners can be set on
all four wheels and the drive is
through a rotating cylinder at each
back.
AS a safety measure, members of
the legislative committee on automo-
bile laws in New York state are try
ing to compel pedestrians to walk on
the left side of the road
Because of the last hour rush for
registration, the Pennsylvania state
DO your shopping early" slogan for
motorists applying for the 1922 Ii
censes.
Motorists accused OF driving while
intoxicated in New Jersey, after jan
uary /, will be sent to prison for
from six months to n year, and the
act is so drawn that the commits
sioner's finding cannot be reversed
upon a technicality.
In Shanghai. China, there is an au-
tomobile establishment and garage
representing an investment of more
than 100000, which carries over
Germ has the agency for Is American
and European cars.
Colored bands on telegraph poles
are used in New England to desig-
nate certain routes, North and south
routes are marked in blue, east and
west routes in red northeast and
southeast in yellow. and northwest
and southwest route in brown
Because automobiles are being used
to such an extent by bandits in pub
lie hold-ups, a movement looking to
legislative action has started in New
York state, compelling chauffeurs.
male or female, to wear the license
number in plain sight on the cap or
breast.
What is claimed to be the unique
camp for automobile tourists in the
country is a huge revival tabernacle,
$50 feet by 800 feet, recently used by
an evangelist in Albany Decatur, Ala.
The enclosed camp has accommoda-
lions for 80 cars and is equipped with
running water and electric lights.
In Canada a travel tax, equivalent
to the gasoline tax now imposed in
many of the states, Is being consid-
cred by the Ontario government as
means of securing fair and equit-
able motor revenue with which to
build and maintain highways. A tax
of cent per gallon on gasoline, it Is
estimated, would bring an annual
revenue of $4,000 in this province
Andre Boutin, II years old, a re-
tired merchant of Syracuse, N. Y. has
a touring home" in which he has
planned to spend the rest of his life
leisurely seeing America. The body
of his "home on wheels" Is 221a feet
long. 71b feet wide and 10 feet from
the road bed to the roof. The in
terror approximates the luxurious
ness of a private railroad coach, and
contains a bathroom, kitchen and
sleeping quarters.