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Show DM1YS 10 WEST NOW REACH CHICAGO Maxwell Dealer Tells How Auto Makers Help Out Situation. Driveaways, which have solved the freight car shortage problem in many cases for truck and passenger car dealers and makerB in the east, have not relieved the situation in the intermountain west. Here distributors are too far from the factories to permit cars to be driven over land, and so they must depend on the railroads. This does not mean, however, that middle western dealers depend entirely en-tirely on rail carriers for the haul. Hundreds Hun-dreds of machines are driven to Chicago, or to some point- west of this railroad terminal and loaded on freight cars and shipped to Salt Lake City and other intermountain inter-mountain points. Fortunately it is easier to move freight west of Chicago than east of that point, so that after the automobiles automo-biles are loaded on the freight cars we have some chance of receiving them in due time. "Hundreds of Maxwell cars and trucks have been shipped to the intermountain territory by means of driveaways and rail combined from Chicago," says Manager Man-ager J. B. Middleton of the Sun Motor Sales company, local Maxwell distributors. He added: "I see no reason why trucks and cars should not reach the distributor and the dealer without any harm having been done them, provided the drivers are capable and altogether trustworthy men. There must be no fast driving, there must be no cutting up on the road, and each driver must handle his truck with the greatest possible care in rough going and in traffic. "With men who are capable in even" way, careful In their driving and also who will discern at a moment's notice any little lit-tle trouble which may develop in their trucks or cars, and remedy these at once, the machines will reach the dealer and ultimately the purchaser, ready for active business service without any breaking-in on the part of the purchaser." |