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Show WINTER'S AUTO WRECKING TRUCK MAKES NEW DEPARTURE IN SERVICE -'M--J Ajfp-.--Easy - u tr - - - - - iBIiiy TerOTith is shown the big Nash truck recently transformed at the Karl Winter automobile shops, 719 South State street, into a modern wrecking de-mtli de-mtli tool lockers, traveling crane and electric light for night work. iitienuitv of man has made the safe for "many different kinds of jiical devices;" but the automobile, as nearly fool proof as any sewing ne on tie market, still persists tin? an occasional header into a jient ditch. Smashups will occur best regulated territory and with most careful and conscientious s at the wheel. ining all this Karl Winter who ng carried on one of the most suc-) suc-) repair businesses in the city, t to equip his shop with a device rould mate it comparatively easy rage a battered and dilapidated after it had taken a plunge into ih, a ravine or even over a cliff, esults of his study over this prop osition is shown above and the pictures-give pictures-give an insight into the kind of work the new wrecking truck is designed to perform. . The upper scene shows the big Xash truck picking up the forward end of a car which has lost its front wheels and the entire steering mechanism, while the lower scene depicts the same car hitched by the front axle to the rear of the wrecking truck and being towed to the repair shops. A description of the Winters wrecking wreck-ing truck would include a story of the special lighting fixtures attached fore and aft to facilitate work at night. There are two spotlights so arranged that they may be trained in any direction direc-tion where needed. Equipment for the special kind of work which this big truck is designed to perform consists of jacks, tire tools, crow bars, fulcrums i and a full set of repair tools which are : carried in two convenient lockers which stretch along the sides of the car at the rear of the driver's cab. Over the top a big section of angle iron has been placed on which runs a four wheeled truck to which is attached a1 block and tackle. With this block and tackle working to full capacity the heaviest motor car made may be lifted bodily out of the mud, a hole or a ditch and may be held suspended while it is made ready for the tri to the repair shop. Mr. Winters says his new-fangled wrecking car will be at the service of unlucky motorists day and night. He is not, however, anxious for someone to have a spill just to test out his car, but means to keep it ready for instant service just the same. v ' |