Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-17 | Page 36 | Mountain Roads Test Motor Truck

MOiTI ROADS TE5I mm TRUCK Republic Power Wagon Has Come Through Unscathed The choice of the line of motor trucks a dealer is to handle is as important to his business success as the choice of a wife to his domestic happiness. At any rate, that is the opinion of the officials o? the Inter-Mountain Oldsmobile company. com-pany. 43 West Fourtli South street, who have recently secured the representation in the intermountain territory for the , big line of Republic trucks. So. before signing their contract with the Republic Truck company, a careful investigation was made, not only as to the general repute in which Republics were held by truck users, but particularly as to how they were standing up under the "hard strain of usage in this section of me con mry. In relating the results of this investigation, investi-gation, Manager Duncan of the Inter-Mountain Inter-Mountain Oldsmobile company said yesterday: yes-terday: "for some time we have been intending intend-ing to add a reliable truck to our line of Oldsmobile passenger cars, but we didn't want to go off half-cocked. Y"e realized that it was a serious matter and that the future success or failure of our entire business depended, to a large extent, upon a wise selection. 1 "When we had the opportunity to be- : come distributors for the Republic, we made a thorough investigation on our i own account. We went after the business men and the farmers in .this part of the count rv who are using Republics and have been usin? them long enough to know from their own experience what the truck wid do. "The responses to our inquiries were a'd of the same tenor. Utah users of Republics were unanimous in their hign praise of the dependability and low upkeep up-keep and operating cost of the Republic. "A tvpi1 al experience is that of the i Utah Yallev Gas & Coke company, which j has been u?ing a Republic for nearly a '-ear. It renorted that it had not lost a ! sinele entire day during ail that time. even to make adjustments. The op-. op-. erating cost, of which it kept a careful tabulation during the first six months, was so low and uniform that the officers of that company were most enthusiastic in their recommendation of the Republic. "Thf-se experiences of local users, coupled with i he fact that so many of the bizest and most experienced truck u.-rs of the United Ptates have standardized stand-ardized with Republics, left no doubt in our ninds that the Republic was the truk for us to handle, and we lost no further time in binding the bargain. ( -Republic tru- ks are made tn seven 1 different sizes, for every purpose from fast lii-'ht delivery to the heaviest haul- ingr. This makes it unnecessary for us to carry more than this one make. Republic Re-public quality is the highest obtainable, and for such quality the price is remarkably re-markably low.' Mr. Duncan states that they have a few of the Republic two-ton models in stock already, on which they can make immediate deliveries. A large shipment of Republics, including some of every model, is on its way to Salt Lake, and the Inter-Mountain Oldsmobile company expects to have the complete line on display in its salesrooms before the end of the month.