Show Gas Vehicles I I N Are Registered in U. U S. S I j Net Wet Net Increase of 1434 Largest Ever Recorded Gain of 23 Per Cent Over Oyer Previous Year Fees Total i Nearly There ore are cars and tracks In the United States tod today a net Increase Increase increase in In- crease of over oyer 1918 This Is tho the highest number that has cv e- ever er r been beon reached and surpasses all estimates made mado at nt tho the beginning beginning- of ot the year In I Ivlow view of ot the tho present demand for tor cars this figure of over seven and one half I million already in uj Is particularly I significant Not only did the tho total num number r of ot cars reach a new mark In 1919 but the Increase of oC over 1918 1318 Is for tor a I tho the greatest ever recorded glo year Tills This record marks the tho fourth consecutive consecutive consecutive con con- year In Which the number of ot otc c cars carsin In this country has Increased moro more than a n million The average Increase for Sor the country was 23 per cent The record since 1913 1913 Is as follows Gain Year Gain P Per r cent j 1919 UH 13 3 1918 1913 20 O 1917 39 9 i 1916 50 SO 1915 33 38 f 1914 40 i I 1913 2 24 4 Nearly In fees feos wore paid I during 1919 In b by the automobile owners o of the United States A road authority author author- ity stated recently that 95 per cent oe-nt of the tho registration fees ices paid In the tho various states goes annually toward I tho the building and anti maintenance of ot good roads Thus tho the motorists o of this country havo have contributed about 62 dUrI during tho the past year toward I good roads The ho sum paid to tho the various states as ns fees during 1919 exceeds by nearly the tho figures for tor the tho previous ear The Tnt nt totals l tad the thA figures fl for the the i individual tc states will tou bo bo be found d dIn I In the tho accompanying table Tho The rapidity with which manufacturers manufacturers readjusted themselves 9 to peacetime peacetime peace peace- I time conditions changing from war work to a commercial production basis b is 13 strikingly Illustrated by tho the production production production tion figures for tor 1919 1919 cars and anti trucks were produced In the United Unit Unit- ed etl States during 1919 a 1919 a gain gala of ot nearly nearly near near- nearly ly over the war year 1918 and only slightly behind 1917 when 1938 vehicles were produced This figure figuro fig fig- hr- hr uro ure- Is especially significant when tho the difficulties of ot readjustment aro considered con con- red coupled with labor troubles and shortage of ot materials |