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Show j t MOTOR FACTS AND TIPS 1 I tse the horn sparingly. Keep spring clips tight. Put a new tube Into a new tire. s Know your ear and treat It rignt Keep your head at traffic ansle.-. First Vanderbllt cup race was held on Long Island In ty04. Koad horseless vehicles came before railroads. Belore 1 SyJ England limited road motor mo-tor vehlclc-o to four miles an hour. Real father of the modern automobile j was Gottlieb Daimler. First automobile race was run near 1 IiIciiro In 1SS5. Six cylinder engine began to appear In l'JOS. On July 4. 1 894. there was but one1 practical automobile In the world. First American automobile f.-ilo was made in April. 189S. Oregon was the first state to tax Gasoline consumption. American forces In France during the I vvur had 4s Cf:' motor vehicles, j Before the war there were 12 automo-1 automo-1 bile factories In Belgium. 1 Inspect the Ignition system carefully, to see If all wires arc Intact. Ignition t rmlnals should lie kept bright, and elean. To save gasoline keep moving parts . vv eii lubricated, Automobile saturation was talked of as 1 early as 1915. Automobiles were barred from Central, i Park. New York In 1900. First motor truck was built In 19ns. Indianapolis motor specdvvav was built' . In 1909. Ford's first ear was nicknamed "Ford's Follv John r.. Punlop. a Dublin dentist. Invented In-vented the pneumatic tire In 1S90. I Underlnflatcd tiro shows hotter mileage mile-age than one pumped up hard. , New western car has been designed! to sell at about J.'.no ' Maryland may be the next state to adopt a gasoline tax. i Ten states Impieic a gasoline tax on motorists 1 Best foreign market for high priced I trucks Is Brazil. I t'so the brakes as little as possible. , Neglect In lubrieallng springs causes hard riding. Always cross railroad tracks In second r Keep nuts and tx.lts well tightened. Never turn the steering wheel while j the car Is standing still. Shanghai is to have the first motor 1 bus line in China Twelve railroads are now using motor' busex Berlin has Just held Its first automo- , I bile show since 1911. Only speedway in Kurope Is located ; near Berlin Ninety per cent of the aubanoblles ' In Peru use American tires. Panama is building a 17,000.000 highway high-way across the Isthmus. much oil In the cylinders. Motorcycle registration fees In the United States range from j; to 8. Half of Brazil's 12.000 automobiles are In Itlo da Janeiro ami San 1'iulo. Consult your lubricating chart to keep the car well oiled. A fully charged battery' freezes at 9S degTl : I. clow zero Keep the battery fully charged during winter especially. Old bull)" consume too much current and should he replaced. A r-mall power tire pump has been manufactured for private garages. There are nearly 11.000,000 motor cars In the world. 1 There Is one motor car to every eleven ! persons in the United States. Greet Britain has an automobile for ' very 1 10 persons Tl" ro-l!t.J'r"' mot or car In Siberia to I every cco.ooo Inhabitants! I South Dakota cities ).v zr.n bus lines. Twenty-five ears ago there were onlv ronr motor ears In existence Today America has 8.300,000 motor ears nnd vmu.ooo trucks. Deaths from automobile accidents have nearly doubled since 191... weti h out for end play in tho rhafts. Don t let the motor labor, or It will develop a knock. Turn down Kroase cups every time vou take the ear out. Ke P JTOUr hands off the horn except w-hen necessary. Char-a-banc, or motor bus. In England la gaining In popularity. Firestone Is manufacturing lC.OoO tires a day this winter A medium priced car in Germany costs about 1.10,000 marks. Chalnn only losen the chancos of skidding skid-ding A double kmI of BnOtllghtl underneath the headlight thrown extra Ikh; to the right Best temperature for water In average cooling system is about 170 degrees Fahrenheit. Fah-renheit. Eighty-three per' cent of the world's automobiles are In the Fnlted States. Thirty states are planning construction of cctMi miles of hlKhway during the next five months. South Dakota bads in registration with four automobiles to every 21 persons. per-sons. Bureau of public roads urges standard danger Mfrnr alontf all highways. Motor car production for 1921 "in France Is placed at &a.000 cars and 2500 trucks. Citroen Is the Fonl Of France, with .1 record" output in 1921 of 16,900 cars France has SO 000 persons on the pay-trolls pay-trolls of automotive manufacturers. Mo-t cars of the first automobile show of 1900 wero "one-lungers "had only one cylinder. Steering wheel of t.-dav was unknown on the automobiles of 20 years at;o. Belgium collects an Import duty of 20 1 er oenl on American automobiles. Fifty-five per cent of all motor vehicles ve-hicles are In towns of C000 population or le s Modern automobile manu faeturlnjr plant requires from 3.000,000 to 5.000.000 s.piare ( 1 of f... r -pa. . Maharajah of Bharatpur, India, is said to have the most luxurious automobile ever made. FirM. turnpike In America was con- I Btructad bctwoc-n Lancaster. Fa., and I Philadelphia. In Pennsylvania tractors were practically prac-tically unknown on farms before 1917. American army left 0500 passenger automobiles au-tomobiles In Knnc nflir the nrmlilln. Automobiles and Li false nre kept off the roads of Gngardlne. Switzerland. New Hampshire auto license fees may lie based on weight Instead of car's 1 horseisi wrr. It is aatimated motorMs of the United I States need about 30.000.000 new tires annually. Holland will hold Its first automobile show In Amsterdam, next February. Fnlted States uses SO per cent f the rubier ktow n throughout the world. I Twenty-one states show n regl.siratlon Increase over the last published figures. Horse Thief Detecting Society of Mam-akHtinc Mam-akHtinc N. V , has been abandoned. 1 New Invention develops color comhl- nations In rubber In every possible variety va-riety and shade. It is estimated Australia could absorb 40.000 cars, but has only one-sixth thai number. Tax based on horsepower. Instead of gasoline consumption. has brought In 60.000.000 for Kngland during 19-1. New York police department finds only one motorist in lis knows anything about the mechanics of the cjir. A uniform system of numbering automobile auto-mobile engines to check theft has been worked out by automotive ennlneerx. An authority say America could grow Its own rubber In the Philippine? but for the occasional droughts. Slnco the beginning of the automobile automo-bile Industry about lo years ago. nearly Z 000 roo cars have hen produced. Members of th Kubber club. San VYan-clsco. VYan-clsco. will mutilate their own tires to prevent them K'tting back Into service. Tax revenue from motor vehicle r. k'---tratlon for seven months of 19CI Is $C. 000.000 more than total taxes paid In 19C0 A mldwestern auto dealer always washes and polishes new cars brought to him for any kind of service. Jimmy Murphy set o new world r COTd for board speedways of 111. I miles an hour at the San Carlos speedway, California. Cali-fornia. Slate department at WaAhlnglon has a collection of license tags from every state and 20 foreign countries A law Is being discussed In the w York legislature which would compel people peo-ple to walk on the left side of ccunlr , roads A 45 per cent Import duty on American cars U the principal obntacb 10 ale .1 these products In France. 00 |