The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-12-31
MOTOR DIGEST
Automotive A ctivities
Throughout the World

A law has been enacted in Ohio
which forbids women to operate taxi
cabs.
Motorists in the United States
spend. approximately 500. 100000 a
year for special bodies.
Stop lights have become part of
the equipment on 10 Of the new
model passenger automobiles.
The automotive industry gives en-
ployment to 100000 men and wom-
en- in the United States.
Students at the University of Indi
ana have adopted auto polo along
With their many other outdoor sports.
There are enough motor vehicles IL.
the United States to take the entire
population for a ride at one time.
France has 10 automobile manufac-
turers. The annual production is APP
proXimately 100000 cars and trucks.
Approximately 154,700 motor We
h:cles enter and leave New York city
daily. carrying nearly half million
passengers.
motive industry in the United States
amounts to twice the capital of all
the national banks in the country.
With 10000 automobiles, Belfast,
Ireland, has more cars than any other
city in the United Kingdom of the
same size and commercial Importance.
A tramp was recently discovered
working in New Hartford. Conn.
using an automobile to carry him
from house to house. He was begging
for food, clothing and money.
Although the city of Washington IN
some places extends across the boun-
dairy line, residents are required to
obtain license tags of both the Dis
fYiet oF Column hin sMarv1an6
Motorists in the United States use
an average of $50 gallons of gasoline
each year. The total amount for all
cars Is estimated at 4,275, 000, 900,
costing approximately 81 ,026, 900. 900.
Ninety per cent of. the new Amer
lean passenger automobile models are
furnished with from l to 10 items
of so-called extra" equipment, and
which are included in the list price
of standard cars.
According to Thomas H. Mac
Donald, chief of the bureau of public
roads, greater progress was made on
the nations highways during the last
year than in any similar period in
the history OF the country.
With the idea of making New York
city a safer place to walk in, the
police department started a campaign
against "jay-walkers." 1t is intended
to break up the pedestrian practice of
cutting diagonally across street cor
ners and causing many unnecessary
accidents.
A motor truck has been constructed
in Germany which. with the help Of
legs" can stride across deserts and
swamps. wade through rivera. stamp
over fields and step across bitches
1t is furnished with the two pairs of
skids, one OF which always rests on
the ground, while the other IL NOV
Ing forward, with the load. This
truck can also go backward, turn
completely around Its axios without
moving from the spot, and II even
wa4lks sideways,
Frank Hoiari and Alexander
Ugoiini of Youngstown, o., recently
started on an automobile tour which.
1t Is said. will take four years ro
complete. Over O trail covering 1885,
900 miles on land and $4,000 miles
by sea. they plan to cross the United
Sta ties, then work down through Ar.N-
ioo and Central America to sHuenos
Aires. whence they viii sail for
Africa, After covering Europe, the
Orient and Asia, they will sail from
Australia to Canada, and then journey
into Alaska,
For the convenience of "tiR-ean"
tourists. bill is now pending before
Congress, providing special tax on
automobiles which are engaged In