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Show A five-gallon can of gasoline retails in the Argentine at anywhere from 6 pesos to 16 pesos (one peso equals ,$0.424C). A background of gold and numerals and letters of black is the color combination com-bination adopted by Tennessee for the 1921 automobile license plates. In Belgium, the three largest automobile auto-mobile factories In the country are at present capable of turning out weekly between 20 and 30 finished cars apiece. Between 300,000 and 360,000 people were employed in automobile factories In this country last year. The pay roll amounted to more than $400,000,-000. $400,000,-000. - While there are only 401 persons In Iowa and Nebraska whose income ex ceeds $215,000, there is an automobile for every six persons residing in those states. Arizona, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Vermont have adopted black and white as a color combination for 1021 automobile license plates. At least once in six months ballbearings ball-bearings should be inspected, the rough or worn cams replaced with perfect per-fect ones and the ball-run filled with graphite grease. Eight attendance officers In Seattle, Wash., constantly search the city in passenger automobiles and roadsters for school children who have a tendency ten-dency to play "hookey." Spark plugs of British manufacture are made to fit the American automobile, automo-bile, while the American spark plugs, as a rule, will not serve for British-made British-made cars or motorcycles. In the states of Victoria and Tasmania, Tas-mania, the consular district of Australia, Aus-tralia, there is a registration of approximately ap-proximately 22,265 motor cars and trucks, and 13,265 motorcycles. Did you ever look at your fan belt when you found your engine overheating? over-heating? A slipping holt means the fan is going at a slower speed and does little cooling for the engine. The oil pressure gauge furnishes f rather accurate means of determining the condition of the engine bearings As the bearings wear the oil circulates more freely and the pressure natural ly drops. Because there are several particu larly fast automobiles in this country there is a plan among motor interests to get up a subscription to send American Ameri-can cars and drivers abroad to entrr In the French Grand Prix nutomnbila race this year. |