Auto Patents & Exports, 1905

This content is a digest of short items from the May 31, 1905 issue of Horseless Age. In it you find a calendar of auto racing events for the following two months as well as a list of patents and some interesting statistics for American automobile exports for April 1905 and the previous 10 months. A year-over-year comparison on automotive exports is provided as well.
 
Check out these interesting facts:
 

• For April 1905 the United States exported $237,462 of automotive products.
• Y-O-Y: in April 1904 the number was $236,785.
• $1,876,063 of auto products were exported between July 1905 and April 1905.
• Y-O-Y for the same month span, the number was $1,542,535.
• Going one year further back, the number was $894,521.
• Among the patents granted were advances in pneumatic tires, valve gear mechanisms, variable speed gears and a carburetor for a hydrocarbon engine.