The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-16
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| Norway has upwards of 115O women automobile drivers. l Approximately 5100 American auto mobiles are now operated in Belgium l Cardinal Vincenzo Vanutelli is the l first prelate in Rome to have an ! automobile.
 The daily production of gasoline in 1 the United States last year averaged 14,119,313 gallons.
 Automobile tires manufactured In
 1921 numbered 2O,000,0O0, and inner 1 tubes 24000,000.
 Special products are carried in New England on motor trucks, reaching
 radius of 1,500 miles.
 In Palestine, motor vehicles travel
 between Jerusalem and Damascus IS
 becoming common.
 Automobiles and their maintenance
 cost the people of the United States l $500, 100000 annually.
 II In California automobile dealers and service station men have started a repair it now" campagn
 More street accidents occur in New ] York city in the slack" hours than
 during the business rush" hours. A traffic policeman in Newark N. 1 J., rides about on motor scooter
 to untangle congested traffic. l There are more than thousand | free touring camping grounds estab- l lished by municipalities all over the
 United States.
 According to Harrison E. Howe, of the Chemical society, gasoline will
 be selling at from 40 to 30 cents | gallon by 1925.
 Reckless automobile drivers ot 1 Spokane, Wash. including all motor | ists going over 30 miles an hour. are | sent to the rock pile. Motor cabs. operated in Paris. are built on the lines of the old style han
 som cab, the chauffeur being seated
 at the top in the rear.
 There are 1,sO0 citizens of Detroit,
 Mich, in the police reserve body, or .yanized for the purpose of curbing reckless operators of motor vehicles. In Belgium, mufflers are required on cars to silence motor operation,
 while exhausts must deliver the waste
 gases downward toward the ground.
 New York state has 2l.950 miles of improved highways, S.950 miles of
 which have been built by the state and 13,000 miles by the counties and towns.
 Motor trucks are used to inter
 change freight among the eight rail-
 roads entering Cincinnati, Q. This has resulted in elmlating 30.0O0 switching cuts
 Because seven automobiles have | fallen over the embankment in front of their house, family. living near
 dangerous hill on road outside | Orange, N. J. has decided to move. The Panama government has ap 1 pointed commission of experts to in- vestigate alcohol as fuel for motors. Experiments will be conducted on one | of the sugar plantations of Agua- dulco.
 1 What is believed to be the larges, ! order on record. for motor trucks. was | recently placed by prominent auto-
 mobile firm for 250,000 motors for l four cylinder passenger automobiles.
 made to sell for $34S. /, Federal-aid roads, either completed | or under construction in the United l States at the end of the present fiscal ! year, will require approximaiely 50,- | 000,0 ,000 tons of stone and gravel for i the making of 2S.000 miles of high 1 way
 1 At an automobile race, recently held | over Madonie circuit in Sicily entries
 were made by France. Germany. Italy 1 and Austria. This was the first time since the war that French automo- | piles competed with German ma l chimes.
 i G. M. Tremaine, of Fredonia N. Y.. | holds the office of the Royal Chief | Can Opener of Tin Can Tourists of i the World, the membership of which ! Is made up of several thousand auto-
 mobile tourists through the country.