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Show DODGE OiOS, TRUCKS II SERVICE Pover Wagons Driven From Factory to Embarkation Em-barkation Point. Detroit and Michigan, benig the stronghold of the motor car ami motor truck industries, have been called upon to supply great numbers of both cars Hud trucks for army service, both in the United States and overseas. Early last January began the movement move-ment of these vehicles from Detroit to points of embarkation. Indeed, the movement of motor vehicles over the road has been a boon to the government govern-ment by affording a very largo measure of railroad relief. Many Detroit factories are working on government contracts, and much of the war material they produce is sent forward in the motor trucks produced 'j) the same city. When the forward movement began last winter it was necessarily slow. Xow production has reached a high point, and both cars and trucks are moving to the seaboard in a steady stream, long trains leaving Detroit every day in charge of army officers and army drivers. Fifty Dodge Brothers' quartermaster's quartermas-ter's trucks were recently lined up at Dodge Brothers' plant at Detroit for delivery to the government. From the point of production the trucks are driven to a government storage garage at Detroit, and then are driven to the port of embarkation in fleets of varying number. Frank Botterill of the Botterill company com-pany of Salt Lake, distributors for Dodge Brothers' motor cars throughout this section, declares he saw many such sights during his last trip to Detroit, and he declares that an automobile agent almost wonders how any motor cars come west at all after seeing the number being, delivered to the government govern-ment in the east. Despite war orders, the Botterill company is receiving steady shipments of Dodge Brothers' cars, enabling them to make immediate delivery. |