Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-06 | Page 19 | Up-to-Minute News of Automotive Progress

Up-to-Minute News of Automotive Progress f Ml UUED M TOMolJILF s. Tbey have found another use for the thousands of yards of khaki cloth, destined to make uniforms for American Am-erican soldiers ln France and spld to the French government after the armistice. ar-mistice. The Interior of Paris taxi-cabs taxi-cabs are being upholstered with thj cloth, which Is warranted to last sov-joral sov-joral years. t an t'buiip on Truck t haln- F-asc of attachment is a leading claim for a new anti-skid chain for motor trucks, which can be clamped to the tires In sections. Carries Ti n. k t)cr s'lt Urouud. To apabls motor trucks to run over soft ground, a Los Angeles man has i Invented broad steel flanges to be attached at-tached to their wheels in such a way that they do not prevent use on hard ' roads. 1 1 u ks ari v it ice Horses, The carriage of race horses from their training quartern to tho race 'courses Is now undertaken ln France ' almost exclusively by pncumatlc-tlrcd IH trucks. ililBBLl Win Truck Mirror Fight. ' A permanent Injunction restraining 1 ;H the Kentucky State Tax Commission ''IsLI from enforcing a law passed by the j jf Kentucky legislature, providing that jf owners of motor trucks be required to ' equip them with driving seat mirrors obtained from tho commission, has been issued by Judge Stout, in the Franklin Countv (K ) Circuit court. I alfsl Em loses ticars In Ml. An Inventor claims to have made a farm tractor 2T per cent, more efftc-lent efftc-lent than most machines of Its kind I by enclosing all gearing ln oil. WM oo j"?! Thirty-seven per cent of the 3223 ' ; miles of the Lincoln highway are pai - J1 I ed or macadamized. ' WM oo a -I WM Motor car registrations In Canada ' WM are reported to be Increasing at tho r WM ' rate of 26 per cent a year. , i WM oo pi From 191-1 to 1916 practically all ' available motor vehicles in Finland ; were disposed of to Russia for war i purposes. h i oo VH The new record for an automobile run between New York and Chicago Is twenty-six hours and fifty minutes. oo R' ,H With more than 600 motor truck lines In operation In the Fnlted States