The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-02
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 Buenos Aires has 15,ooo motor ve. hicles, half of which are taxicabs.
 Switzerland is now opening road: which were formerly closed to auto mobile travel.
 China, with four times the popula- tion of the United States, has only $500 motor vehicles.
 The automobile speed record from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast is approximat tely five days.
 In Calcutta, India, there are 1000 having windows that can be swung $50 trucks and 1,4O0 motorcycles.
 Petroleum production of the world during the past year amounted to 759,o30,o0o barrels, an increase of s2 per cent over the previous year.
 Two thirds of the automobiles stolen in Chicago, are taken between 7:30 p. m. and midnight. Ten o'clock is the most favored hour for car thefts.
 An automobile factory in France, for the first time In the history of foreign motor car production, recent ly attained an outputs sof 100 cars a day.
 l. Following blazed trail. an auto mobile tourist can go from the Att 1antic to the Pacific coast without using a roal map and without con sulting a guide book.
 "Bobbjes," in London, race by on -T- xI squadrons of them scatter to the four corners of the city in automo- piles for roundups of criminals.
 With a population of 250,000 in- habitants, Liberia is the most back ward of all the nations in adopting the automobile. There are only eight cars in the country.
 With capacity of 25 passengers, an all-steel bus has been designed, havink windows that can be swung out of sight to leave the sides open in warm weather.
 It has been proposed in New York city that traffic policemen be pro- vded to direct the movements of pe- destrians in the same manner as the movements of automobiles are now directed.
 Because of the high cost of saso- | line in South Africa, motor fuels are manufactured from sugar cane, corn and certain classes of cactus, all of which provide plentiful supply of alcohol.
 In Canada. a motor fleet, consist ing of 67 passenger cars. B motor | .xf fire apparatus and 3S motorcycles, has been acquired for the municipal department of Toronto.
 During the past five years motor truck transport in Great Britain has grown to an investment of $550,000,- 900 in 5000 lines. In 1921, 5000, ,000 tons of freight were carried as aux Hilary to the railroads.
 After deducting the amount paid by automobiles in license fees, one and one-tenth cents per day was the cost of the American highway to the individual man, woman and child in this country last year
 According to statistics obtainsble there are in use 12,5sS.s49 motor ve- hicles throughout the world. Of this number 10,505.660 are in the United States, 497,5S2 in Great Britain, 46s,44S in Canada and 2ss,l4s in France.
 The growth of motor transporta- ton of live stock is the most out standing feature of trucing into and out of Kansas City, Mo. In one day. 1S2 head of cattle, 116 calves, 469 hogs and 42s sheep were recently shipped by motor truck.
 Orders, requesting reservations for the 500-mile International Sweep Pstakes Automobile race at Indianap- oils, Ind, May 30 have been received from all parts of the United States, Canada, England, Cuba, Italy and Honolulu. Twenty thousand seats are already sold for the race.
 More than s1oo, 900. 900 will be ex- pended to build new highways and repair old ones in the United States this year. Jobs for approximately 100, ,o00 workers for an entire year will be made available as a result of the construction campaign. This is on the basis of s1,0oo per year per worker.
 Adoption of a system of uniform highway marking throughout New England is to be undertaken this season, and it is expected that the plan will be extended to cover the whole United States. It will displace the present varied system of color bands and other signs in the differ ent states, so that the motorists travelling through number of states will not be confused in Keeping to the right road
 In Massachusetts, no vehicle may travel over the highway which, with its load, weighs more than 14 tons without special permit, and the load must not exceed 800 pounds upon tire-inch of the vehicle. No motor vehicle which. with its load, weighs more than four tons, is all lowed to travel at speed of over four miles per hour if equipped with metallic tires, or over 12 miles per Der or similar substance. The out side width of vehicle is limited to eight feet.
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