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Show ALL-YEAR OHO TRUCK WIIK POPULARITY Convertible Housing for Driver Is Feature of the Kissel Power Wagon. That the success of Kissel 's all-year cab is a foregone conclusion is indicated indi-cated by the many inquiries the Kissel Motor Car company has received during the past three months from both motor truck owners and truck dealers in all parts of the country. If this interest can be taken as a criterion for the success suc-cess of the all-year cab, it can easily be seen that it will prove one of the biggest features in the commerci'al truck world today. "It has been apparent in the past that the right type of a convertible cab for motor trucks was badly needed, not only by drivers but by truck owners ao well," says Salesmanager Hewes of the Intermountain Motor Car company, local lo-cal distributors of the Kissel line. "The efforts that have been made in the past to make a convertible motor truck cab, show that the makers were not familiar with the correct principles involved in designmg and constructing a convertible cab. The years of experience, ex-perience, planning and study that Wb have devoted to the all-year top in the passenger car field has been invaluable in solving the same problems in the motor truck field. "Driving a truck in itself is a business busi-ness requiring no mean 'ability. To successfully handle a truck in busy streets, keeping to shipping aud deliv-' ery schedules and at the same timo keeping down operating expenses, requires re-quires that a driver must not be handicapped handi-capped in any way. "Heretofore drivers have had to face rain, sleet, snow, hail and winter's biting winds, sometimes working all day in wet, soggy clothing that lowered their vitality and decreased their efficiency. ef-ficiency. "We realized that such a condition could not last' long that truck buyers would not continue to handicap their drivers by purchasing trucks without real protection to their drivers -that truck owners would not continue jeopardizing jeop-ardizing their property in the hands of unprotected drivers. "It is during the winter months when the streets are wet and icy that a truck driver needs all his faculties. He must be on the alert. He should have the benefits of a warm, dry, comfortable cab, thus making his work easier and himself more efficient. "Motor truck owners appreciate this and I am sure that they will find in the new all-year cab the one real solution of the problem. "It is estimated by experts that with the proper protection during winter, motor truck drivers will be able to not only materially lower the number of accidents due to physical discomforts while driving unprotected in Winter and rainy weather, but the increased tire mileage and saving of time will amount to and run into hundreds of thousands of dollars annually." |