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Show TOURING HOTEL IS LATESTJVIQTDR III President of Indiana Truck Corporation Adopts a Unique Plan. Rayruuiid M. Bock, western ropresen-lalue ropresen-lalue for tbo Indiana Motor company of Marion, Intl., who ii here looking aftr tho interests of the Indiana truck, reported a fleet of forty Indiana power "ajjoua doini,' yooman f.ervieo in the oil fiolds of Wyoming. Mr. Heck states all these trucks were sold by tho Denver distributor. Mr. lieek also told the following story re-tfardina re-tfardina tho plans perfeetod by President Presi-dent Charles G. Barley of the company lor a transcontinental trip this year: "Touring in your own notel is a new motoring idea for which Charles G. Barley, Bar-ley, president of tho Indiana Truck cor-poration, cor-poration, Marion, Ind., is responsible. "Mr. Barley and his wife and Harry Goldthait and his wife this spring will nial.o a -1000-mile trip to California and buck in a 'hotel' built upon two-ton Indiana truck chassis mounted upon pneumatic tires. "Built into tho chassis is a sleeping room for i'ivo people, including the driver. There is a kitchen and compel com-pel o cooking apparatus, a small living room, a hall, twenty inches wide, between be-tween tho sleeping compartmonts, and a. lihtinj system for lighting up at I night, which furnishes twenty or twen- I tv-fivo electric lights. The truck is ! also oquipped witli lavatory and toilet, tools, shovels, picks, a powerful searchlight search-light for tie driver's seat, clothing chests, etc. ; "The truck also has a refrigerator for preserving and keeping food, and it will hold a largo quantity of ice. Water is also to be cooled by a special device ! in the refrigerator. The sleeping com- j partmcnls for each person are twenty- ! six inches wido, with springs and hair mattress. Tho top of the truck is oquipped with a canopy, like a regular I army truck, and ouo side of this canopy ! is of sufficient length so it can be stretched to the ground, three stakes I put into it and made into a regular tent. I "There is also a space provided in the 'hotel' for a motorcycle for use of tho driver on special errands taking him off the main lino of travel. The truck, I in additiou to being equipped with pneu matic tires, has shock abserbers and I sn ubbers, and Mr. Barley states that, without pneumatic tire equipment, such trip would not be possible. The stand-i stand-i ni-d wheel base of the truck has been lengthened to provido for the equip ment. j "Trips like tho above are sure to come into vogiie with people fond of outdoor life. And it is expected that people making fishing trips to far-away : ; points, camping trips and the like, will, : providing they have tho means, acquire equipment liko that built by Mr. Bar-Pi Bar-Pi ify." |