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Show AUTOMOBILE ITEMS t An old-fashioned auto horn was one that said "Please" Instead of "Shake a leg!-' A motorist always misses a tack except it be that the pedestrian makes the wrong tack. Of course, in the old days large families were the rule, to help put up the one-man tops on early automobiles. auto-mobiles. The space in the hardware store window that used to be devoted to a rack of horsewhips is given over now to accessories. One of the hardest things to understand under-stand is a motorist who drives out to see the beautiful fall coloring at the rate of 0'2 miles an hour. A storage battery can deliver an amperage of twice its capacity or more for a fraction of a second, providing pro-viding it is in good condition. An English doctor says that 90 miles an hour in motoring is safer than 4.") miles. Maybe that is why so many drivers try to make it. The 22,000,000 cars in operation In the United Slates ciavel approximately approximate-ly 220,000,000,000 miles annually based on an estimate of 10,000 miles per car per year. These cars use U.",0O0,0OJ spark plugs a year. The boundaries of Egypt will he patrolled in the future by soldiers in motor cars instead of on camels as soon as the ministry of France approves ap-proves the expenditure Involved in replacing re-placing camels by cars. |