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Show More Trucks Used Now Than Pleasure Cars 5 Years Ago Last Year's Kissel Production Produc-tion Nearly Double of Previous Season. The situation of the motor truck today to-day approximates that of the passenger passen-ger automobile five years ago. "Everybody remembers' said C N. Carrutbors, manager of the Inter-Mountain Motor Car company, local Kissel-Kar Kissel-Kar distributors, "hovr, in 1912, when foresighted manufacturers first predicted pre-dicted an early approach of the two million mark in motor car production, many thought it was merely a wild surmise. sur-mise. Now we talk of a possible seven million aoid nobody questions the possibility possi-bility of it. "Today there are not more than 175,000 trucks running in this country, but the 1916 production showed an overwhelming increase over any previous pre-vious year. That fact and the undoubtedly undoubt-edly greater interest in machine power haulage on the part of all classes of business men, makes perfectly plain the hand-writing on the wall. "Kissel's truck production in 1H1G was nearly 170 per cent bigger than 1915 and at least double the 1916 out-j put will be built the present year." |