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Article Index: 1926 Category: Chronological Archive Page Sections: March · July · August · September · November · December |
| March | Title | Details |
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| Tuesday, 23 March 1926 | ||
| 23 March 1926 | THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. Automobile statistics must be irresistable to minds that revel in figures. Their volume is tremendous, and it changes almost from day to day. Looking into the future, a lightning calculator takes no risk of contradiction when he says that there will be 51,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1975, at which time he makes our population 171,600,000. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| July | Title | Details |
| Saturday, 31 July 1926 | ||
| 31 July 1926 | 1926 Activity of Automobile Industry Sets New Records | The Independent |
| August | Title | Details |
| Sunday, 8 August 1926 | ||
| 8 August 1926 | FORD STRIKES A SNAG IN RAIL MERGER PLAN Recommendation that the Interstate Commerce Commission reject the application made by Henry Ford and associates to permit acquisition by the Detroit & Ironton Railroad Company of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad and the Toledo-Detroit Railroad was made today by Examiner Ralph H. Molster. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times Dateline: Washington, DC  Topic: Henry Ford |
| 8 August 1926 | TIRE SIZES HAVE INCREASED SINCE BALLOON POPULARITY Simplifying tire sizes, that is, making fewer sizes, seems to be progressing backward rather than forward, according to George J. Burger, Secretary of the National Tire Dealers' Association. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| Saturday, 14 August 1926 | ||
| 14 August 1926 | Automotive News Briefs: 14 August 1926 | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| September | Title | Details |
| Sunday, 19 September 1926 | ||
| 19 September 1926 | HARNETT SUSPENDS 13 MOTOR LICENSES Automobile drivers' licenses of thirteen persons have been temporarily suspended, a laborer in the State Motor Vehicle Bureau has been discharged and two women clerks suspended by Commissioner Charles A. Harnett as the result of his discovery that inspectors' reports rejecting applicants as drivers had been altered so that persons who failed in their tests received licenses. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times Topic: National Automobile School |
| November | Title | Details |
| Tuesday, 9 November 1926 | ||
| 9 November 1926 | Automotive News Briefs: 9 November 1926 | Brief News Articles (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| December | Title | Details |
| Sunday, 5 December 1926 | ||
| 5 December 1926 | BRITISH MOTORISTS COMING TO AUTO SHOW Great Britain's automotive industry will be well represented at the third World Motor Transport Congress during the National Automobile Show Week. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 5 December 1926 | CONDEMS USELESS MOTOR HORN HONKING Considerable improvement has been noticed in this city and other parts of the country in the unnecessary amount of horn-honking noise as a result of the activity of traffic officers a few weeks ago in warning motorists who sounded their horns too freely and the efforts made in that direction by the American Automobile Association. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 5 December 1926 | MOTOR INSURANCE UNDER STATE LAW Compulsory Acts Not Widely Favored, but Massachusetts Experiment Will Be Watched With Interest. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 5 December 1926 | MOTOR THEFT CAMPAIGN BY NEW YORK DEALERS Thefts of motor vehicles are steadily increasing in the metropolitan district, announces the Automobile Merchants' Association. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times Topic: Automobile Merchants' Association |
| Tuesday, 7 December 1926 | ||
| 7 December 1926 | DIDN'T NEED HIS BLANKET Jonas Ramsey carried a horse blanket on his arm yesterday when he was arraigned before Magistrate August Glatzmayer in the Traffic Court on the complaint of Traffic Patrolman Connolly that Ramsey had “made a public nuisance of himself by continuous blasts of his automobile horn on lower West Street.” | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| Thursday, 9 December 1926 | ||
| 9 December 1926 | Automotive News Briefs: 9 December 1926 | Brief News Articles (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 9 December 1926 | Berlin Instals 'Murder Auto' To Reach Crime Scene Quickly Berlin's new “murder auto” has been put into service. Its object is not to slay people, as its name indicates, but to enable the police to detect crime. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 9 December 1926 | TWELVE MAYORS OPEN JERSEY CITY BRIDGE The new bridge, which is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, crosses the tracks of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, and is expected to relieve traffic congestion at this point after the opening of the vehicular tunnel. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| Saturday, 18 December 1926 | ||
| 18 December 1926 | RESEARCH IN GLARE. We are more likely to be astonished by scientific examination of some of the common, every-day things which we accept as blessings or curses. One of the latter, glare from automobile headlights, has been studied by the Research Committee of Lafayette College. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| Sunday, 19 December 1926 | ||
| 19 December 1926 | Automotive News Briefs: 19 December 1926 | Brief News Articles (text) Publication: The New York Times Topic: Marmon |
| 19 December 1926 | MOTOR ADVICE FOR COLD-WEATHER DRIVING A.H. Sarvis, Service Manager of the Buick Motor Company, has issued the following list of precautions to be taken by car owners to assure the most efficient service during the cold weather. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times Topic: A.H. Sarvis |
| 19 December 1926 | TROUBLESOME PROBLEMS IN BAY STATE INSURANCE LAW Reports from the leading motor centres of Massachusetts indicate that car owners have been very slow in applying for their new registration numbers under the provisions of the compulsory automobile insurance law, which goes into effect Jan. 1. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| Friday, 31 December 1926 | ||
| 31 December 1926 | Deny Pleas of 10,000 Autoists For Special License Plate Numbers Automobile owners who have hoped to get license plates bearing numbers they particularly liked—lucky combinations or figures or the same numbers as their houses or telephones—are being empathetically turned down this year. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 31 December 1926 | M'KEE DENOUNCES SECRET BUS POLICY Joseph V. McKee, President of the Board of Aldermen, served notice yesterday on Mayor Walker and the other members of the Board of Estimate that he would attend no further secret conferences on the issuance of bus franchises. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |
| 31 December 1926 | Walker to Move for Awards On Buses Before Jan. 15 Mayor Walker intends to make a motion for the award of the bus franchises at the second regular meeting of the Board of Estimate in January to make good his promise for definite action before Jan. 15, it was learned yesterday. | News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times |