The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-25
MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
 the World


 Alberta is the first province in Canada to impose a gasoline tax.
 The entire production of passenger automobiles in England did not ex- ceed 10000 cars during 1922.
 American motor vehicles are now shipped to IA different foreign countries. including Iceland.
 According to estimate, motor vehi- cles in New York state used approxi- mately 550,000,000 gallons of gaso- line in 1922.
 More than s47000.o00 has been ex- pended on the improvement of the Lincoln highway during the past nine years.
 A small hot-water radiator has been designed for closed automobiles. The heat is supplied from water of the circulating system of the motor.
 Savings amounting to s10,o0o.0O or more each year have resulted from tests of automobile brake Things conducted by the Bureau of Stand ards in Washington, D. C.
 The number of motor vehicles in Canada is steadily increasing, par ticularly in the prairie provinces, where a more extensive system of good roads is being urged.
 According to the business already
 
 that upwards of 3.000,00 passenger automobiles and trucks will be pro- ducted in this country during 1923.
 Almost every available storage space in Detroit, Mich, Is stocked with automobiles awaiting spring de- liveries. Thousands of cars are placed in garages, barns and build ings of all sorts.
 A taxicab company in Chicago. Ill.,. has IF standing orders for cars morning and evening to carry chil- dren to and from school. Most of these taxi students are between the ages of six and ten
 Motorists in the United States paid more than 0O,000.000 last year in excise taxes, registration fees, gasC line taxes. wheel taxes and various other levies put on by different states and cities.
 A bill was recently introduced in New York legislature requiring that every motor vehicle be equipped with a mechanical governor that would prevent the cars from going more than 30 miles an hour.
 Of the total 1922 census, embracing all types of automGtive vehicles, the state of Prussia claims 67.9 per cent, of S5,717; Bavaria, 12.2 per cent, or 20,16S, and SaXony, Il per cent, or 1S.1S5.
 Frederick Tudor of Sandwich, Cape Cod. has held license No. 1 in Massa chusetts for 20 years. He recently re- fused an offer of s5,o00 for it from C. H. Davis of the national highways commission of Cape Cod.
 The first record of motor-pro- pelled road vehicle dates back to 1760. when a steam operated car was invented by Capt. Nicholas J. Cug not a Frenchman. In 1S45 and 1847 a pneumatic tire was patented by F. w. Thompson in England. Gasoline was discovered in 1860.
 In one month IA police lieutenants in New York city checked more than 5000 violations of traffic ordinances by persons walking in the streets as we'll as violations by drivers of motor vehicles. Three thousand and nine "jay walkers were found crossing streets in the middle of the block, and 800 children were stealing rides or "hitching on" behind moving vehicles.
 In total value of output the auto mobile Industry is now second only to agriculture. It's estimated output for 1922 was $2,725, 000,000. The in- dustry requires so per cent of all the annual production of gasoline and S1 per cent of the crude rubber inn ported. Of the 12,700,000 employees supported by industry and transpor- tation. 13 per cent depend on the automobile industry.
 Seventy per cent of the passenger operated in America are of the four cylinder type.
 A total of 270,995 passenger auto- mobiles and trucks were produced in this country in February. The pre-