Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-24 | Page 29 | Success of Trailer is Now Assured

SUCCESS OF TRAILER IS MJSSUKED "The question of trailers is a settled question," said an official of Landes & Co., Troy trailer distributors, yesterday. "People do not hesitate now in thinking about whether a trailer is a satisfactory article or not it has been proven and proven right in the intermountain dis-trirt" dis-trirt" The official continued: Take, for instance, such firms as the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph company, Utah Power & Light company. Amalgamated Sugar company, com-pany, Utah Construction company. Salt Lake Pressed Brick company and a large number of other firms who are using Troy trailers In connection connec-tion with their hauling problems. The motor truck five or six years ago was in doubt. That is, people difl not know whether motor trucks were a satisfactory method of doing their work or not. That question lias been thoroughly determined. Several years ago the question of trailers was in doubt, but that question has been determined de-termined and they have proven a success. suc-cess. Today all of the large firms in the United States' with hauling problems are using trailers, and we would say that the largest per cent of trailers used in connection with all large hauling propositions are Troy I trailers. The allied TOuropean governments are all using Troy trailers. So that the question of trailers is settled, and the question of Troy trailers is settled set-tled because they are absolutely a successful trailer. Activities in trailers this season are far in excess of our expectations and also far In excess of the company's com-pany's ability to take care of the business busi-ness In satisfactory manner on ac-j ac-j count of deliveries. We recently delivered two three-ton three-ton Troy trailers to the Utah Power & Light company and the Phoenix Construction company, to be used in the construction of an electric power plant and transmission lines in the vicinity vi-cinity of Ogden and north of that point. Also a delivery was made to the Cadillac company of Ogden. the Ogden dealers for the Troy trailers three three-ton and one one and one-half one-half ton Troy trailers to be delivered to such concerns, as the Utah Packing Pack-ing corporation, the Amalgamated hugar company and the Utah Construction Con-struction company. A trailer must be made to handle work that is harder on the chassis than when it Is used on the motor truck, for the reason that a trailer is entirely independent and It must cany the load under all conditions 1 hat is the reason wh- a Trov trader has given such wonderful success suc-cess In this Ipn-ltnrv