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Show TROY TRAILER IS SPECIALLY ADAPTED Advantage of Using This Instead of Ordinary Truck Made Plain. " Possibly the one greatest reason why truck owners are a little slow in taking tak-ing Fiiivantaye of the real savings that can .be nwlo ' in their transport a I ion ((i.is by the usn of Troy truilois is the fact that nnie time or other thry liy e OxjierinifMi t?tl w ith a trn ilnr in Ihe shnpo of an nnlimiry o: irt'ss or f reihtiiijj n ml h o mt 1 1 n I f;iM)(l jtsu It s. 1 1 owe vp r, t In' fact I h;;t thr oritiiuny w;it:oii will not holrl up behind a (Motor tnnk is not lm'aie thf w n 1:011 is not cons) n n't ed propprly ij'nl strong enough, but bersnisr it is not doinu the work for which it w;i riosiytie'l. I'ut the same waimn behind n team of hnrsrs hixI lojnl it. to capacity each trip and it will jiivp years of M0od isfa'-t ion, 1ml inn the same was: on he hi nd a motor t rucl and the conditions of sei viiv are mi nllei'rti thaf t rouble front the ftart. is almost in evitable. The n vrr.ipp s jjeed of a t ea m d ra w n vnMui is aliout hvn and one half miles per hour, and at this .-peed the bear ings will stand un because they have boon constructed lor it, but attach the wa go n to a t r u c k and s p p e d it 1 1 1 t o the average speed of a truck, which is about, eight miles per hour, and you increase the speed of the I tearing almost al-most 00 per cent, and there are not many .bearings that will slaud this tremendous tre-mendous increase, certain ly not t ho?e of a' wagon. And again the wagon bearing will not lubricate satisfactorily at the greater speed. Then the axles are given uhduo strains that were not meant for them and the steel 1 ires crystalline ;iml split open .and the wheels themselves begin to show the effects of high speed altyost immediately immediate-ly and the first squeak of a hub or spoli o today is a cmnplei e heel failure fail-ure tomorrow, and tightening and repairing re-pairing does nid do iniudi good. The. Troy Wagon Works company has been the manul'ac t urer of horr-e-drawn wagons for nea rly fi fly years and its Troy frailer business war; built up from its infancy in a series of elimination of the constriudi'Hi and principles that go tn wards inak iug a sa I isfactory wagon, but have no bearing on a properly prop-erly designed motor truck trailer. The result is a trailer that can hardly be distinguished ftom the chassis and gear of fiie highest grade motor truck. Th1 proper steel for each part, the large n urn her of drop forgi ty,, t he Swa rtz interlocking wheels. tlo heaily riveted frame, all go to make a trailer that will r-land up under the severe vork that it if- subjected to and lie a profita'de investment for its owner. |