The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-19
MOTOR DIGEST
Automotive Activities From All Parts of the
 World

III 1d pan, the ownership of an auto- mobile is a sure sign or wealth.
 Motor tractors are operated on one farm out. of every 2S in the United States
 The government tax for operating the average automobile in England langes from s1o0 to $125.
 Pedestrians on the highways in the United States outnumber motor- vehicle drivers by about 14 to 1.
 One out of every seven wage earners in the United States earns his livelihood from the automobile industry.
 The automobile industry today is the largest among America's manu- factories It is bigger than oil. meat, lumber and iron and steel.
 In Danzig, motorcars used by doe tors and other professional or busi- ness men for transportation in sheir daily work are exempt from taxa tion.
 Twenty teachers in the public schools of Nutley, N. J., have asked the board of education to provide garages near the schools for their au- tombiles
 One out of every three bales of cot ton conumed in the United States goes into automobile tires. Four out of every five pounds of rubber are used for them
 The average sentence for stealing horse was 10 years, and the aver age for stealing an automobile, worth several times the value of the horse, is three years.
 In New York city all sorts of charges are imposed on owners Of automobiles for parking spaces under private manipulation. Some of the rates are as high as s2 a car
 Unable to use his automobile while serving term of from two and one half to five years In Sing Sing, John Jansky, of New York city. gave the car to his attorney for legal services
 Out of 205 motor vehicles recently stopped in Massachusetts and whose rear lamps were tested, only one was found to have a tail lamp that con formed to the requirements of the law.
 Traffic regulations are not en- forced in Paris, Policemen standing in the street are there primarily to preserve order and to untangle tra>- fife mixups after they occur. Sema- pHoTes are unkHoWn. ,rs aAas sssfsf5Ns
 In Connecticut the state law re- quires that all fines and registration fees must be applied to the building and upkeep of state roads. Thus 49 cents out of each $1 the motorist rays is spent for new. hard surfaced roads.
 South America has become the battle-ground and monopoly of the of the automobile trade. where Amer ican and European exporters are staging gigantic fight for suprem acy Since the war the United States has virtually monopolized South American markets.
 The American Automobile associa tion has bill to present to Con gress at the next session which pro- vides for a federal automobile li- cense, permitting automobiles to cross state boundaries without molestation from constables who require a state license fl om each state entered
 The record for changing a tire of an ordinary small automobile Is three minutes 2S 1-5 seconds. This in cludes lacking up the car removal of the casing, insertion of new tube. application to the rim of new tire and imitation to 65 pounds pressure with ~ hand pump. No tools were used.
 The juice of prickly pears mixed with other chemicals Is successfully used as an automobile fuel In Africa According to reports. the spirit has leen severely tested on various makes of cars and is highly recom- mended, being noncorrosive. colorless and equal to or better than gasoline in power and flexibility, mileage of PA being obtained in siX-cylin- der car.
 Automobile engineers are working on plans for improving the 1928 au- tomoble motor. There are three new construction features to be brought out in tho next year: C) The adop- tion of the four wheel brake system. (2) An increasing number of eight cylinder cars. with an even larger percentage of sixes. This step will be taken to care for the demand for smooth running cars and stability Of all speeds. (3) Changes in trans mission and clutch construction so that there will be less and less shift ing of gears, and cars may he started high speed without danger of harm ing the differential and universal joints.
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