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Show REHI5 FREIGHT CARS TOSHIP PACKAROS Traffic Manager Hits on Unique Scheme to Cope With Car Shortage. The freight car shortage, which has reached an acute state in all parts of the country, is particularly harassing to the automobile manufacturers of Detroit. De-troit. The situation has so pefsistently delayed deliveries that traffic managers mana-gers are resorting to all sorts of schemes to get their shipments under way. j Charles J. Sha-ar, traffic manager of the Packard llotor Car company, has made special arrangements with customs officials of Canada to permit him to make shipments of Packard cars -from Windsor, Ont., directly across the Detroit De-troit river from the motor city. He also has rented twenty-six freight cars that are used in summer for carrying carry-ing race horses. These cars, being privately pri-vately owned, can be used only for Packard shipments and are returned to the factor7 as soon as unloaded at destinations. des-tinations. Shaar's department also has fitted a three-ton Packard truck with a platform from which it is possible to load Twin Sixes on team tracks or sidings in all parts of the city. This arrangement has resulted in the shipment of several hundred hun-dred ears that could not have been shipped otherwise. It is often the case that motor cars are conveyed ten or twelve miles from the factory to the loading point. The traffic department has scouts continually on the lookout for automobile cars and whenever they find an empty one, two Twin Sixes ready for shipment are immediately started on their way. The truck is fitted with an inclined runway so that the car can run under its own power up and on the platform. Then the truck backs up to the door of the freight car and the Twin Six moves into tho "side-door Pullman," also under un-der its cwn power. |