The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-29
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MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
 the World

Pennsylvania has 14,964 motor ve- hicle dealers and 153,167 paid drivers.
 The selling prices of used automo- piles are now figured down to an av- craze of S350 car.
 Clinton, la, city of 25,000 pop ulation. has 4,000 passenger cars, 250 motor trucks, 20 taxicabs and 10 mo- tor buses.
 Of total of s1.so3,72s.21s invested in factories in Detroit, Mich, $1.160,- 100000 is invested in the automobile industry.
 Missouri leads all other states with 13,S00 motor trucks on farms; Penn sylvania is second, with 12,631, and Iowa third, with IBIS trucks.
 There are more than 500 one-arm automobile operators in Pennsyl- vania. Each of these maimed drivers carries a special operators license.
 Michigan distinguished, as the greatest. automobile producing state In the world, has approximately S1,600, 100000 invested in the industry.
 Motorists in the state of Massachu- setts will have to pay S24,00O,0O 900 in premiums if the proposed compulsory liability insurance bill Is enacted into law.
 There are 2,S19,0o miles of high ways in the United States, of which Texas has the greatest mileage, to- taling 1S2.S16, and Kansas is the next largest with 124,143
 The bureau of public roads. in Washington, D.. C.. operates a ma- chine for testing materials to be used in building roads. This device tests rock for toughness or resistance to impact.
 Designed for fast freight service, an eisht-wheel motor truck is oper- ated in San Diego, Cal, with a speed of 35 miles an hour. The chassis is l,~t,t I. ol and four front steering wheels.
 England has a travelling tailor's shop, something like the auto gro- cery truck. which goes through ths country. stops at the villages on mar ket days and measures customers for suits to be made and delivered later.
 License fees up to $250 a year are now imposed on motor trucks which carry enormous loads over the costly modern highways in Indiana. A new law limits the total weight for truck and load to 12 tons in that state.
 In an effort to smash the towing trust" in Geneva. N. r., motorists in that city are forming an association for the purpose of getting free tow ing and road service. The cost of towing car by the trust has been as high as $25 and $50
 Modern lighthouses are being in- stalled at all dangerous curves treStleS bridges and crossroads on the main highways in the state of Washington. Each lighthouse is six feet high. about 20 inches across the base, built of concrete and steel and surmounted by a bulls eye light IS Inches in diameter.
 The Auto Club of Poland has ar- ranged an international automob bile race for the week from June I5 to 22 ove-' course of ',275 miles, The start of the race will be at Warsaw and the route will be through Lodaz, Kattowitz. Teschen, Zakapane, Dro- hobyez, Stryj, Kolomea, Lwow and back to Warsaw.
 Great care has been given to the construction of highways in the na- tional parks of the United States. Roads have been built through deep cut canyons. across towering mount tain ranges, beside rippling streams filled with the fighting trout and into primal forests. Hotels and camps have been erected to provide comfortable accommodations in tho most distant and inaccessible places. Free camp grounds have been pro. vided for those who wish to bring their own equipment and camp out.