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Show Did You Know? . The history of the motor truck antedates an-tedates tho passenger automobile. Between G000 and 7000 motorcycles are in uso In the Netherlands. Tho British army employed -113 wo-mon wo-mon motor drivers during the war. There are only 2l.i0.125 miles of improved im-proved highways in this country. More than 2,600,000 horses were displaced by motor trucks last year. The largest motorcycle factory in the world is at Springfilod. Mass. Sale's of automobiles in British Columbia Co-lumbia totaled GOOOVarriast year. Rubber tires on motor trailers aro required In Michigan and Wisconsin. Wisconsin has 12,000 miles of railroads rail-roads against 77,000 miles of highway. Motor truck trains moved between points 1000 miles distant during the war. Four highways are to be constructed construct-ed In St. Louis county, Mo., to cost $1,872,000. French pedestrians pay little or no attention to traffic when crossing the highways. The estimated production of agriculture agricul-ture type motor tractors for 1920 is "300,000. Canada ranks second among nations for the manufacture and ownership of automobiles. The Boston postal service in Massachusetts Massa-chusetts is to be augmented with 10 additional motor trucks. Tho state of Oregon has nearly ten times as many motor vehicles as the entire country or Norway. For transportation by rail, flat cars and gondolas are used in shipping automobiles around the country. Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts Massachu-setts permit tho operati6n of motor trailer trains CO or 65 feet in length. American-made automobiles aro more conspicuous on streets of Athens, Ath-ens, Greece, than any European mako. Tho twenty-dollar federal reserve bank nbte, series of 1914, has an engraving en-graving of an automobile on tho reverse re-verse side. In China the old city walls of Canton Can-ton aro being razed, and wide highways high-ways aro to build on their site for automobile traffic. Storago and handling of gasoline has been placed under state regulation by the bureau of fire protection 'in Pennsylvania. oo |