The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
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AUTOM0TIVE ACTIVITIES
 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Illinois has 22,1o2 tractors on farms.
 Gasoline costs sS centavos GA cents) a gallon in Mexico.
 In Germany, automobile speed races have resumed near Berlin.
 Fifty-five out of every 100 farmers in Pennsylvania own automobiles.
 London has 2,Ooo motor sight-see- ing busses and 5,OO0 passenger busses.
 Indiana has at present 10000 more motor vehicles than during the whole of 1920.
 Government, private and conner cially owned motor vehicles in Picking, China, number 1,500.
 There are 129 passenger automobile factories and 222 motor truck fac tories in the United States.
 There are three and one-half times as many motor vehicles in New York city as there are in London.
 Chicago is the largest postal motor equipped city in the country, having no fewer than 450 vehicles.
 The automobile industry as a whole is running approximately 72 per cent of what it was a year ago.
 California, at this time, claims 10 have more automobiles registered than any other state in the union.
 A motor bus line, operating in Can ton, China, has 15 trucks and trailers each accommodating 70 passengers.
 Mrs. Daisy Golding, a member oi the police department of New York city, is the only woman motorcycle officer in the world.
 Automobiles are found on more than 30 per cent of all the farms in the United States, the number of cars totaling 2,l46,5l2.
 Germany is now manufacturing, II different kinds of passenger automo- piles, with prices ranging from 70,00e marks to SS0,0oO marks.
 It is figured that there is approxi- mately $5,0O0, 900. 900 year saved in time through the use of motor ve- hicles as against other means of every day transportation.
 In the city of Mexico, the municipal license fee on a passenger au- tomobile is 39 pesos. or $14.50, every two months, and passenger car, 25 pesos every two months.
 The first automobile show ever held in China is planned a Shanghai during the week of November 2G to December 3. There will be on dis play the best known American. Brit ish and French cars.
 Motor manufacturers in Germany are planning to exhibit this year va rious types of cars in motor shows in the United States. It will be the first appearance of the German cars in American shows since 1914. As a result of a gasoline economy test in France, a motorcycle was re- gently operated over a course of & g kilometers (about miles) on one liter of gasoline This is nearly 200 miles to the gallon of gasoline. Osaka, the great commercial center of Japan has 117,451 registered ve- hicles for transporting passengers and freight. They are classified under four heads, viz; Motor vehicles, 5,S2s; team cars, 1,s72: animal drawn. LOIS, and those drawn by men. 10S,575.
 Automobile tourists. when reach ing Minneapolis, Minn, are ap- preached by policeman who gives the driver a printed slip requesting him to visit the municipal motor headquarters at once and carry man to direct them about the city and surrounding country.
 The French ministry and the de- partments of colonies and war are having constructed special motor ve- hicles with caterpillar drives to cross the Sahara desert. Each car will carry reservoir of 200 quarts of m nf i 00n | quarts on traiiers.
 The New York State Automobile ass ,iation, in proposing laws gov ernlng the operation of automobiles, is in favor of enforcing a movement requiring all speed limit signs to be illuminated in conspicuous letters on both sides to notify drivers of the lend of the limit zone.
 According to statistics the wearing qualities of American motor cars show steady and definite imLfove- ment In 1915. 14.5 per cent of the cars in use were eliminated: in 1916 10 per cent were discarded. In 1917 only IS per cent dropped out: In 1918, 5.3 per cent and in 1919, 5.s per cent.
 The motor foot" recently discov- cred by physicians, is d new disease caused by operating an automobile The ailment is always acquired by using the accelerator. especially on long tours. which displaced the meta [ tarsal bones, causing a decidedly mo- ticeable limp. It's effect is not se- rious. and rest is the only cure. In England, road clubs for motor ists are being opened along the main highways at a distance of 50 miles apart. The plan grew out of com plaints of overcrowded hotels and | expensive rates. The club houses, | which give a superior kind of hotel accommodation. together with ev- ertything the tourist may need in the way of garage, repairs and supplies the annual membership is $5. l FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY From Life.
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