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Show MOTOR TRUCK SAVES LAWN IN MOVING TIME Pneumatic tires on a motor truck as a saver of front lawns in moving time are recommended by Perry B. Simmons, who conducts an express and moving business in Portland, lie., using a one-ton truck. The moving season, now on in earnost, will leave many lawns cut and disfigured. Portland will have fewer than usual. With former methods, when goods were to be taken from a. house and placed in a moving van. it generally was necessary, to carry them down tho front walk, as property 'owners would not permit the van wheels to cut up their soft, green lawns. When Simmons started moving with a pneurnatlc-tlred truck, however, he found it an advantage. "I back right across tho lawn to the steps," he said, "and easily -run tho furniture and pianos from the front door right into the rear end of tho truck. The tires, 3Gx53 Inches, do not destroy the greensward, and this method saves a lot of time." What is possible in moving pianos with a truck is shown by the work Simmons lid recently when he moved nine of them in the city of Portland before 3 p. m. He then took one to Biddeford, sixteen miles out; another to Kcnncbunk, twenty-eight twenty-eight miles out, look on a piano In this town and went back to Portland with it ac 8:10 p. m., although there was a sleet storm. The trip was sixty miles, and Simmons estimates that a team would have been three days doing the work. The truck Itself has aroused considerable consider-able interest among the business men of Portland, as Its pneumatic tires have traveled over 10,000 miles and have not been punctured, although they have been driven over rough country roads as well as city streets. |