Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-23 | Page 48 | Franklin Plans to Build Truck

will become more general users of mo tor trucks us the means of contact with the markets. Franklin construction is adaptable to country highways and it is expected that the new truck model will be usable on farm lauds also. Tliis is not the first experience of the Franklin company in the commercial commer-cial car business. Jlodel J was an nounced in 190". Marly of the MoSel L one-ton trucks purchased as far back as 1909 are still running. This type was the pioneer of pneuwa tie-tired commercial vehicles and at' that time the industry thought that Franklin designers de-signers were barking up the wrong tree in specifying this tire equipment. It is interesting to note today how general, the trend is to follow Frank pioneering, even in trucks of larger pacity. The company also built 1500 pound truck, known as modal All truck manufacture was discon ued at the time manufacturing tu ties were concentrated on the p tion of a five-passenger l'ranUM tomobilc. FRANKLIN MS TO BDJpiICK Will Place One-ton Model on Market Within Eighteen Months. . An item of real uews to tho Franklin ejealei' organization is the decision of the Franklin company to begin at once the development of a one-ton truck, which it, is planuod to place on "the market within eighteen mouth's time, according to a bulletin just received by IT. W. Newtou, manager of tho Franklin Motor company, bait Luke Franklin distributor. This aimouiicciiYint comes as a surprise sur-prise to most of tc dealers, yet the step has beeu under consideration by company officials for a long time and is something that will develop briskly into a reality. Un Armistice day the SyracuKj papers carried the preliminary prelim-inary details of tho plan and the coincidence coin-cidence was. regarded as fine testimonial testi-monial of the Franklin company's confidence con-fidence in the future prosperity and welfare of the country. The first Stops in perfecting the organization or-ganization for developing the truck have been taken by the appointment of J-. L. Yarian of the engineering department de-partment as engineer in CharpO. It will not .be long before the drafting and experimental work will bo under way. The truck will, uf course, be equipped with a Franklin air-cooled engine; will luive pneumatic tires ami will follow the lines of light weight a-nd econfrny, which are established features of Franklin design. In designating one ton capacity for the truck, the coin pauy has soVcled the widest field known to commercial Vehicles. This will he increasingly the case as road development is carried on, as farmers