The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-08
NOVEL SCHEME
 FOR USED CARS

Auto Row last week at 209 Twenty first street under the head of the Used Car Corporation. Unlike the now eX- isting used car exchange, MT. Brisom, owner of the business, will act as agent for several security companies and banks and has arranged to han de cars exclusively for them.
 Mir A R. Redburn of the Birming- ham Auto Body company is connect ed with MT. Brisom in this scheme and will handle all the repairs made on the cars. They have planned to give the best values possible in used cars by making all the necessary re- pairs.
 Both men are very well known along Auto Row and in the city, and have many friends who will be interested in the new scheme
 in automobiles. The device is mount ed under the hood In such a position that 1t sprays the engine with chem ical solution when It becomes over heated and melts a fuse.
 The 1922 Grand Prix, conducted by tho Automobile Club of France, VIII be held over the hilly roads of Alsaee on July Is. Measuring 10 miles the course will be laid in triangle from Buttlenheim, Innfheim and Enzheim. near StrasbourE.
 Thet red painted bands at busy crossings in Paris, constructed to give protection to pedestrians on high- ways, have proved failure. Thelr presence is revealed only during heavy rain, and the drivers and oper- ators of vehicles Ignore the lines
 The penalty for overlooking any commercial motor vehicle, tractor trailer, or semi-traller beyond the gross weight of the vehicle in New Jersey. is not less than $lo0 nor more than 3250 for the first offense, and for any subsequent offense not less than S250 nor more than $500
 After A test of a combination pas senxer and baggage motor vehlele 1 over A line of the Pennsylvania rail road. near Philadelphia, railway men stated their belief that the motor car rier has possibilities of supplanuns the locomotive and equipment on short branch lines all over the couh- l try. o
 cent of whom were convicted for op- eratinR motor vehicles in Pennsyi- vania while intoxicated, have been revoked this year. Names or l' 1 other persons who were convicted or 1 violating the automobile laws ou' held no drivers licenses have been 1 placed on the blacklist and cannot gel | a license for one year. T.ouis Enright, an aged chemist and inventor, Is now in prison In Mineola, N. Y. having been convicted of grand l Ia rcenv in connection with the sale of stock in A company organized 70 man n- ufa ctl,ra a machine he claimed Woulo generate gasoline from peat at cost of cents gallon. The best. thing 1 the mechine was found to do was generate smoke.
 George c. Mcfarland, president oi the new Pennsylvania AutomotiVo association, is in favor of obtaining i laws for more severe punishment oi
 persons convicted of driving cars
 while under the influence Of liquor ] or of the theft of motor vehicles. MT l Mcfarland recommends that drivers found guilty of driving while lntoxl' l cated be sentenced to at least veal in iafl, while persons convicted ol
 theft be sent to the penitentiary Tor
 from five to Is years, without pos i ssbility of pardon.
 Because the automobile thief frs Fl changes the engine number to destro,
 the identity of the car. the Society
 of Automotive Engineers has recon
 menoed that the ensi iuchtiAiS s
 number be placed near the top Of th'
 right hand side of the crank cast
 proper in a position in which 1t car
 be read easily. The numbers woule
 he between two vertical ribs or heads E one quarter inch wide. one -eightf
 inch high, three inches long and thre' N inches apart, the surface of the cast
 ing between the ribs to be left rougf
 as cast and unpainted even on thu finished car.
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