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Show SAVS in CAR WILLBE HDL Local Kissel Distributor Predicts Day Soon When Tie-up Is Unknown. "I predict that in a short time there will be no such thing as a transportation transporta-tion tieup, or that we must depend on one type of equipment to answer industry's indus-try's demands for adequate transportation transporta-tion facilities," says W. H. White of the Intermountain Motor Car company, local Kissel distributor. "The recent transportation strikes in different parts of the country have brought home the extent to which industrial in-dustrial and agricultural America de-' de-' pends on the country's present trans- portation equipment. ' "By tying up this equipment the country's industrial, mercantile and agricultural business interests are j thrown out of gear., a procedure too j vital to the nation's prosperity to re-l re-l main in such an uncertain condition. "I predict that soon the motor truck ; will cause a readjustment in transpor-j transpor-j tation conditions, brought on not only ; by the economic development of the ! country, or the unusual good health of i business, but a general dissatisfaction i with temporary transportation that i makes transportation certainty doubt-I doubt-I ful. I "It is due to the ability of the au-' au-' tomobile to especially meet the de-I de-I mands of concerns to cover short distances dis-tances that the motor car is proving ! such a big help to the business man. Practically 95 per cent of the uses of the automobile during business hours are for short trips, from one point of the city to another point, or even a matter of a dozen .blocks. Quite a good j deal of time can be saved through the ; quick pick-up of the motor and its ability to creep in and out of heavy I traffic. I "The multiplicity of short haul rid-i rid-i ers as compared to the long haul riders i was demonstrated recently by a street i car company in the east which raised its rates from five cents to ten. Under i the ten-cent rate the short haul rider was almost completely lost, which placed the burden of distributing the revenue upon the long haul rider. By eliminating the former type of passen-! passen-! ger, an extraordinarily largo number of j passengers were lost." |