The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
MOTOR DIGEST
Auto Activities Throughout
 the World

England has 75.000 more motor cycles than passenger automobiles
 Automobile tourists take more than $500, 100000 into Florida an nually.
 Twenty seven hundred pupils are transported in motor vehicles to 2s consolidated schools in Wood county, Ohio.
 Signora Avanzi Is distinguished as the only motor speed racer in Italy. She won three races in succession at the recent automobile races.
 Automobile builders in France are experimenting with a car driven by the heavy oil remaining in petroleum after the extraction of kerosene.
 A popular type of light automobile in Holland has three wheels, with a single cylinder motor over the wheel in front, and is steered with q lever.
 Eighty per cent of all the motor trucks in servce in the United States are one-top or less. This has grown from AS per cent in the last six years.
 Any motorist who leaves car oc- cupied with the engine running in Yonkers, N. Y, must go to jail. The warming was issued by City Judge Charles w Boote.
 For the first time in history. King George of England rode from Buck .ingham to St. James Palace re- cently m an automobile, abandon ing the state carriage because of rain.
 According to the state highway commission. the sum of $1S,272,703 will be required to maintain and preserve "California's $93.000.00O in- veStment' in state roads for the fiS@ cal years 1923 and 1924.
 There are no automobile parking la ftf.N . Japan. The traffic officer is a si- lent man. never uttering a sound, never blowing a whistle. but carry ing on his duties through an elabo- ration of signals.
 laboratory connected with one of the largest manufacturing plants in the United States represents an in- vestment of $100,000, and employs I25 skilled men. Approximately 500, 900 laboratory tests are made annually.
 One of the longest motor bus lines in the country is in California; op- erating on regular daily schedule from San Francisco to San Diego. Buses, operating over this route of $50 miles, usually take two days to complete the trip.
 TC raise sS,00O,0 GOO for highway construction and maintenance, weight is proposed as the basis for motor vehicle licensing in Wisconsin.
 
 way system calls for an increase in mileage of from 7,500 to 10000
 Motor tourists camps in Florida are under regulation and official su- pervision, and inspection on sanita- ton, water supply, lighting, etc. There are no free camps, and the charge of 25 cents is assessed on the ground that camp administration costs money.
 Twenty-Five American motor ears are used for regular passenger serv- ice in China between the cities of Kalgan and Urga, a distance of 700 miles. The road between Kalgan and Urga is an old caravan route, and there are bad stretches Of sand, rock, gravel and dirt.
 Colorado is perhaps the only state that temporarily doubled it's popula- tion of 1 ,000, 900 by tourists. In 1922. traitor of 514,412 campers, and the railroads handled fully as many va caticnists having Colorado destin- ation points.
 According to Ralph H. Mckee, pro- lessor of chemical engineering in the School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry of Columbia university. petroleum production in the United States and Canada is at it's peak and probably within three years will be- gin to decline.
 Mrs. M. .M. Cramer of Wichita, Kan, conducts a successful business in the center of the business section of the city in cleaning the interior and exterior of automobiles. The mo- tor laundry includes wash rack of cement, an overhead washer, an cleo tric vacuum cleaner, brushes. cham ois. etc.