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Show BRUTHERS PUTS VIM TOKSK LIST Tells a Few Facts About the Much Mooted Delivery I Subject. The housewife knows that no matter what she buys or where she buys it, whether she takes it home or has it sent, she pays for having it sent home. Sometimes it costs more than the article is worth to deliver it, sometimes a mere tiartion of the value the. charge depends de-pends altogether on what the merchant knows -about the cost of his delivery service, according to Manager C. N. L'.irruthers of the United Motor Car company, Vim delivery car distributors. In speaking on the "subject of delivery cost Carrntliers said: "The retail stores of this country deliver four times as many packages as are handled by all railroad and steamship lines put together. to-gether. "Besides the 447,116 merchants and tradesmen, there are 2,000,000 farmers and truck growers who have the delivery de-livery problem to solve. . "Whether by team and wagon, by second-hand or converted pleasure car, or by the heavy motor truck teaming, hauling and package delivery are costing cost-ing the people of America twice as much as they should. "One great department store pays over $4,000,000 a vear for package delivery, de-livery, and finds that $3,000,000 goes .iust to drive the dead weight of its hea.vy trucks. "Another department store goes to the other extreme uses light pleasure ears with wagon bodies; and finds that the inevitable overloading cuts down the life of the cars and causes constant replacement. "Makeshift methods are always wasteful, always costly. A man need Dot. be an engineer to know that the. light engines of a pleasure car, designed to carry five passengers with at most 750 pounds live load, cannot be loaded dav after day to 1000 pounds dead weight and more without giving out. "He must know that the heavy truck, with its 4000 or 5000 pounds of dead weight, cannot be practical for light package delivery. "The problem of efficient package delivery is the problem of handling a load of 1000 pounds. "There is not a delivery car in the market that will do this so efficiently as the Vim delivery car, the first car designed specifically for this service. "The Vim delivery car is produced by men who know more about this package delivery problem than any other group of men in the country. "It has three years' record of most astonishing efficiency. Its capacity is 1000 pounds delivering its load with a remarkable economy in gasoline and high all-around efficiency easy to handle and no time lost in fussing and 'regulating. ' " |