Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 33 | Conserving Power by use of Trailers

CONSERVING PDWER fflf USEDFTRA1LERS j Economy and Feasibility of i Working Trucks to Capacity Ca-pacity Shown. 1 Ti e a tit omobile or motor t nick that rui.s singly and alone on the street or' iiiphway wastes two odious of gasoline ; wnde utilizing one. This fa' t lias niven rise to an inereas- j ins? demand for "trailer" trucks as a j means of economy, both in "pas' and j labor, s!n-e by such means the motor' encine wid transport three times the j wei'.H that it can carry. In other wordy, by the application of I the same principle that enables a man to drar on wheels a In. id far in excess of 1 what ho can 'carry ; or tha 1 enables a horse to draw a wasnn bearing a weight that would crush the animal if it were placed on its back: or that enable: a locomotive lo-comotive to drac a train of heavily-laden car?, or a little tup to tow ua t :b'h;p. an automobile or motor tri ck will pull librae iimuH Its carrying- capii itv. T:i!s hits bewi procn under e ere conceivable con-ceivable condition. ioiv yen. ra I em-plovment em-plovment of this simple, scientific principle prin-ciple the drawbar principle---by larmers and by fommrcia! tirnm !a vintr bulky ' onunoditles to transport i.vei ccnmtry roads and city street-, vould mea n a proportionate savins In exp-.-nse to them and in the conn 1 ry's ;-upp!y of 1110; i -power enerRV. of which t he world now stands so urgently in nerd. The principle "works" the s:fm with (the most demure riin;i..oi.i a with t:-e j bi tree st truck manufactured. The farmer jwith an ordinary automopile, fir an ordi-1 ordi-1 nary motor truck. let us say. has several ton? of produce to cart to market. 1 Ms chief transponation cost lies in vaseline consumption mi the ro;ld. and second perhaps, tomes the time consumer!, jt $ easy, then. 10 compute his saving if ,e equips himself with the means of transporting trans-porting three tort? with tiie same outlay in motive power and time that would oilier wise be required to 1 1 a n.jiort one ton. Or, the merchant or the manufacn-er who has f;oods to transpoj-t between t be freight depot and his place of business uses a truck that can carry, f.iv, ;l ton it h. load What a saviuc o:;M I.e .f. fe- ied were ho to tre ile the t ra nsn -rt in " I eaj.aeily of Ids engine simply by hiichii'i to a two-top trailer truck! There are sever.il makes of such t fucks : on oe market, built on scientiric prlnci- J pie-- and with the same precisu-n and! with t lie sa me 1 are to cf!icien-y -r.d 'i.e;,-.- iji -uh.!(. .-d i:i 'Ousir'ic-;io,-, ..f I . a:.!c-:.o .he or ir- power tru- k iT-.-if And th'-:r u.-p,, .;;, ,i-:r; :ou fur lh-I lh-I Jr.:.'o:-t,i..iM of frec-.t. (..-.; iti y ar d j in io.it'', ntn;id niiMii 1: .., h in u.c uj f .,! rmlidlllV .1',: , OIIMTV.lt:,il ; "f t.'.e rc. S i: t le i.atlo':.