Show MAXWELL AXELL T TRUCK Rue I SHOWS UP I HORSES Unusual Demonstration on icy Street Is Gasoline Triumph Icy L tied against the team and wagon 0 elson Daker Baker company wholesale wholesaled d a a Maxwell ton one-ton truck cov- cov itself with glory as it ft vividly demo dem- dem o 0 s rated l the superiority of the motor otoro o 0 the old-fashioned old horse horse drawn drawn yeh ve- ve h e In hauling hauling- merchandise over Deo De- De o 0 streets streets said Manager J J. B D. Mida Mid Mid- d a fn n of the Sun iun Motor Sales company distributors the other day fording to Middleton the comparative t tive test was vas made Tuesday December 11 hen the streets were slippery with withard withard ard packed snow covering and zero condu condit conditions ions prevailing Tho be actual c a demonstration n began when tm taS wagon a team and truck e started ed to to- to other eter the office of the Nelson Nelson- Baker aker company compain at 8 40 a a. m m. The ve- ve were r t to cart boxes bojes of glass b bot- bot I j ts tits from r a freight re car spotted in 1 the ards to the warehouse of the company distance from tho warehouse to lo the car was one and anti four tenths four tenths miles for the round trip l' l boxes weighed pounds each I the first load the Maxwell carried carrio cl h boxes hy-boxes Y box's or one om and a half tons A AW W tY five m nute delis delay was wat occasioned or orthe he truck at t the tho loading dock Not Not- fit standing the 10 toss loss H of the time the rock ruck was loaded and back at the office lo lock locc lc at o clock The wagon ar ar- ar- ar iv p with five fIfty five boxes es at 10 1030 30 but bute e truck In the meantime had delivered load of forty boxes two boxes two ton more truckloads of two tons each ad teen deposited at the office docks b bitt b by byI I itt a a. a m at The wagon completed Us lis cg d load six fifty six boxes b by noon t had carted ItO ISO boxes and the v boxes during the morning I 3 yen hen the I afternoon e work k began e the orl fu d ruck undertook n t to deliver a an assorted 1 rc ise to the cross town freight its This trip tup by the wagon team teamon on umed the entire afternoon e truc truck Ie ba backed ked ed Into the office dock clock o'clock for foi it Us its load one and a half halt The truck ran to the Wabash I ht t depot bak where part of the load v deposited ai and d then continued l to tob b Detroit 1 oledo Toledo A v Ironto n depot f e delivered the last list of the load Re Re- hg iff the the the- truck went to the tile freight ticked ll up a two two ton ton load and had ite ite it iti i e e office loading dock in ill one hour fi five five minutes UFo o more round trips to the freight Were ere made b by the truck each truck each trip tripa a two two ton ton load before stopping he i da day During the afternoon the k had hauled boxes and made the theo 0 o the cross town depot The wagon he e same time had succeeded in malt male I 1 two wo trips to the freight car and av J boxes The t truck ck and the them m both quit at St 5 30 p p. p m m. the wagon hauled boxes from fromI I l' l to the office docks in forty mint min mm- t llIe the the truck c carted boxes besides I on and one one half half hauled to the cross freight lg depots wf all trips the truck hauled over over- s Six of t tile the he trips the boxes weighed and nd the driver and two la- la riding on the truck added o to the load From om the garage to the office dock the uk traveled six miles The return u to tot ei eif t rage after finishing n g the work added d hor six miles The actual mileage olk Of ol I k while hauling goods amounted miles The truck made a total tl 11 of 31 8 miles consumption of gasoline the 11 o miles per gallon and n 11 tle slippery pavements They IThel total mileage of team and agori agon gori while hauling freight was 5 56 6 lies The wagon covered six miles on round trip from the Nelson-Baker Nelson 1 s barn to the office making the theay ay ws a mileage for foi the wagon 11 G miles the truck k was engaged e In haul haul- l l r n five hours and forty mutes there was a a. loss of one hour and eight minutes caused by enforced alts ait at the loading docks trIte The Maxwell truck ended the day with k I spurt urt of speed under under- undera a load of two JIB eis plus the pounds extra weight libe be three men men malting making the trip from to the docks tenths seven-tenths of ofle lle le in c exactly three minutes 1 |