The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-14
THE MOTOR DIGEST

Germany has so manufacturers of passenger automobiles.
 The Kansas City speedway has been pronounced the fastest in the world by great automobile racers.
 In the United States and Canada, there are S8 per cent of the regis tered motor vehicles of the world.
 More than s1,O0o, 100000 Is invested in 112 factories producing motor ve- hieles in the United States. e~
 North Carolina, with 2os,40o cars. collects sS,75o,o0o ir license fees and s900.000 in gasoline tax, total levy per sautomobile of S22.20.
 Throughout the United States, tourists have been found driving au- tGnobiles with dogs, cats, chickens, pigs. sheep, goats, monkeys. goldfish and canary birds.
 Taxi companies in Chicago, ILL, have many drivers who are graduates of colleges and universities. Six op- orators for one single cab company are Electors of philosophy.
 In Europe, nc fewer than 75 makes of cars use four wheel brakes. France leads with this new equipment for automobiles, followed by England, Belgium, Italy and Germany.
 In the last Is years, the United States has spent between $15,000,- 900, ,00O and s20.000, 100000 for passen- ger automobiles and trucks. More than s6o00.000.0o0 have been e1- pended for improved roads.
 Upward of sS.669.000 was the total revenue collected from gasoline tax in 27 states during the first six months of 1923. Of this amount ap- proximately $4,97S,0O0 is known to have become available for highway improvement.
 During the first eight months of the year 2.491,063 passenger automo- piles and 25S,774 motor trucks were turned out by 1S1 American automo- bile manufacturers. The entire pros Auction. last year was only 2,339,4l4 ycars and 244SS2 trucks
 there are 56.974 miles of paved streets IS feet wide. This mileage by far exceeds that of every ether coun- try in the world, and if merged into single great highway, would more than twice encircle the globe.
 Despite the cry of general poverty in Germany, an automobile show was recently held in Berlin with 700 ex- hibitors. Sales of cars this year broke all records, and because Of ad- vance orders, factories are unable to deliver cars in less than two CT three months.
 Of the many things taxicab driver in London must know before he IS permitted to drive a car are the names of 33,000 streets, and the near est routes to them, all the squares, gardens, parks and public buildings, his way out of London to distance of 30 miles, and various driving and conduct rules.
 New York. with 46,236,244 square yards of paved streets, leads all mu- nicipalities in the United States Chicago is close second.< with 36,757,52o square yards. The next 10 highest cities in the order of their paved yards are as follows: St. Louis, Philadelphia, Detroit, Balti- more, Los Angeles, Boston, which has 11,374543 square yards; Cincinnati, Pittsburg. Portland, Ore, and Kansas City, Mo.
 Balloon tires for automobiles are an outgrowth of the World war. Aviators found that it was impos- sible to make safe landing on rough ground at high speed on the ordinary type of tires. By greatly enlarging the tire diameter and con- structing it so that it would have great strength under low. soft in- flation, they found that the heaviest bomb dropping planes, weighing tons, could be safely dropped out of the sky on rough ground and landed safely at 60 miles an hour,