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Show TRUCKS ENLARGE OPERATION FIELD Merchants Control Greater Territory With Far Less Hauling Expense. "Most of Kissel's investigations as to relative efficiency where motor trucks have replaced "horses result in revelations that prove the futility of comparison, ' ' says C. N". Carruthers, manager of the Inter-Mountain Motor Car company. " Nhat 1 mean is that trucks are covering cov-ering an extent of area, making an aggregate ag-gregate number of deliveries and running run-ning a total mileage that was not attempted at-tempted by their owners before they discarded horses. "The Kissel factory periodically sends out blanks to these owners, in which a number of questions are asked regarding the service of their vehicles. These blauks are not only a great help to the truck owner, but give the factory fac-tory , an opportunity to become accustomed accus-tomed to the truck owner 's business, as well as to have the thorough knowledge of the truck itself, and with this information infor-mation they can keep the truck owner advised as to the manner in which he can handle his truck in connection with his business, and make a much better ' showing than if he had to figure it all out for himself. It is a common occurrence for these blanks to be sent in, saying that the truck is covering from twenty- ; five to fifty miles a day, when the i horse-drawn vehicles only covered from : five to fifteen miles a day. j "Now, the fact of the matter is : and the blanks go to show it that many business men, formerly , content with a narrow radius of operation, have with truck equipment gone out into a wider zone and thereby increased their, business. While they formerly hesitated hesi-tated to put on more teams to cultivate these new fields, they now find they i can do it at a reasonable cost and they are doing it. "It is, of course, a great argument for the truck to say that it will re-placo re-placo three or four horse-drawn outfits and perform the same amount of work, but it is a still more important fact to a majority of merchants that it will double or triple the. amount of ground covered by one horse-drawn outfit. Kissel Kis-sel trucks are doing it in hundreds of instances. ' ' |