The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-26
21so l .|MOTOR| DIGEST HA B y:


 I Canada has 5.522 automobile dealers.
 Monrovia, a small foreign country, has only three automobiles.
 Ther3 are nearly 6O,0O0 licensed garages in the United States.
 Motor busses in operation through out the United states number 10000 cars.
 Norway has 12,OOO automobiles, or one ear every 215 persons in the en- tire country.
 The Department of the Seine, in which Paris is located, has 56544 motor vehicles.
 A large taxieab company in Chi cag9 has increased the wages of it's chauffeurs s250.000 this year. In London stolen automobiles are paraded y the police of Scotland Yard to enable owners to identify them.
 NeS York state. with a fe / more than 750,000 motor vehicles, repre- sents ls per cent of the cars in the country
 Australia. which is approximately the size of the United States, has one automobile to every 67 of it's inhab- itsnts.
 Police officials in Pittsburg de- clare that 99 out of every 100 thefts of automobiles are due to owners neglec or eareles"ness.
 More motor vehicles are registered each in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. New York Ohio and Pennsylvania than in the European continent.
 Germany has 5S passenger automo- bile manufacturers, 34 truck makers. S5 body builders, 40 accessory con cerns, and.S0 machine t, 1l com panies
 In Central America automobiles are stored in the homes. and it is es sential that the car be built with proper dimensions to fit in the hall or parlor.
 With 75 per cent of the department motorized, Philadelphia proposes ex- penditures of sS5.OoO to entirely equip the city with motor fire fighting ap- paratus.
 American automobile tourists, en- tering Canada over the Niagara bor- der, spent s57.OOO,0O in the Dominion last year. Nearly 12S, ,000 cars carried the tourists.
 As a measure of economy and to suit all kinds of traffic, Kansas is experimenting with road. part of the surface of which S dirt and the remainder concrete or brick
 The Touring club of Belgium is raising a fund to mark out specially the route from Mount Kemmel to the sea, that is the route along which the German advance was stayed in 1918.
 majority of the legislative body of.Bermuda has at last agreed to per init system of motor buss for pas scngers and freight Private motor cars however, will stay under the ban.
 The smallest cycle car made in Austria. with an S-horsepow air cooled cylinder engine, placed in the rear of the car Is built for two or three passengers anl it's price without tires is 100000 crowns.
 sevehty-four types and sizes of automobile tires have been discon- tinued within the past three years by the large American tire makers. This means production and development are concentrated upon but Is tire styles.
 A discarded automobile was dis covered recently on farm near Will limantic, Conn.,, converted into a still and producing liquor. The gas tank, radiator, gasoline feed pipe. the hood of the car composed the makeup of the ''hootch" producer
 In France the first arrest was made recently of pedestrian promenading on the highway in Paris. fine of one franc vas paid. According to a new law persons are prohibited from walking in the streets, gutters, or elsewhere, other than on the side- walks
 According to government figures a total of 2S,o00 miles of good roads wore built in the United states last year. or distance equal to 10 times the width of the country. Half of this mileage has been built hv tbe state governments in conjunction with federal aid. The remaining 14,- 900 miles were constructed indepen- dent of federal assistance.
 During the year 1921, 41,392 motor cars were exported from the United States. Of this number Latin Amer lcan countries received ,',729; British North America, 6,39s; Asiatic coun- tries, 6,012: Europe. 5,460: Oceanica. 4,625; noncontiguous United States territory Consisting of Hawaii. Porto