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Show DUPLEX lCK lit RECORD FREIGHT HAUL Practically Equals Railroad Freight Service Charges on Long, Hard Trip. ' The Grady Motor rompany, local distributors dis-tributors for Duplex trucks and Keo cars, announces that the demand for both trucks and automobiles is growing each cav as sprincr aoproaehes. The new Roo models are real beauties and demonstrate the best efforts of tht.s highly organized automobile manufacturing association in the production of an ideal auto. Mr. Gradv recently received the following fol-lowing account of an extra hard trip negotiated by a Duplex power wayon: Dependability, one of the most important im-portant requirements of motor trucks for overland haulage ,of freight, was ccni-luslvelv demonstrated to he a feature fea-ture of tiie Duplex recently, when one of the four-wheel drive trucks made a trip from the Duplex rom-pauv's rom-pauv's factory in Lansing to Pitts-burk Pitts-burk in sixty hours' actual running time. The total mileage, was 391 and the total number of gallons of gasoline used was fifty-nine, or six and three-fifths three-fifths miles per gallon. Five quarts of oil and one pint of water were required for the trip. The truck left Lansing at 3 o'clock on a Monday afternoon and arrived in Pittsburg the following Friday morning at 2 o'clock. The total cost of operation, including includ-ing driver's wages and expenses, co.t of gasoline and oil, and including depreciation. tircsL insurance and maintenance, was Sort. 11. The railroad freight rate between Lansrft;- and Pittsburg on 7000 pounds, rhe truck's capacity, is $41.30, or S14.S1 less than the cost of transporting transport-ing three and one-half tons of merchandise mer-chandise bv Dupler truck. "The P.fll-mile trip was made without with-out accidents or mechanical trouble of anv kind," said President IL M. Lee of the Duplex Truck company. "The onh- delay occurred when the Duplex was held up four and one-half one-half hours bv other trucks that were stuck in the mud between Cleveland and Pittsburg. 'It was clearly demonstrated that t he Duplex is absolutely dependable for overland transportation of freisht and can successfully compete with the railroads on a basis of time of delivery as well as economy. The trip was truly a remarkable performance perform-ance when it is considered that the truck left Lansing in a regular Michigan Michi-gan blizzard and hauled its load through eastern Ohio roads hub deep in mud. "The freight was delivered in Pittsburg Pitts-burg three and one-half days after it left Lansing several days in advance of the f relent traffic schedule of railroads. This is a most important consideration with manufacturers and many times a saving in time of twenty-four or forty-eight hours is worth" more than the actual freight rate." |