Show MARSHAll FiElD BUYS 12 Marshall Field k Co of Chicago o have bought twelve more Packard ton three trucks to add to their equipment This addition to tho the Hold Field fleet represents in n itself an investment of more than Since Sinco December 1008 1908 the tho Chicago o stores store's officials ba have havo 0 purchased purchased pur pUT chased twenty one Packard trucks the latest purchase making a a total toW of f thir thir- y ty The present order is tho the thirteenth It repeat order ardor for Packards This company uses Pa Packard kard three- three ton trucks for freight and furniture hauling but especially for hauling route trunks from irom the tho retail store storo to the sub- sub delivery stations from which parcel de do- deliveries liveries are aro made The trucks aro arc in service practically every cry day in tho the year working ton ten and an avera average of hours a da day ay making from front forty to fifty mules miles a R day Dur During ing Trig tho the holiday rush season season December 1 to 25 the they y work double shifts Two crows are arc used and the length h of daily service rT co is from eighteen to two twenty hours The Tho oldest Packard in tho the service of of the Field company is known as No It has been at work for them since I January 1 1909 and in that time has hM traveled more moro than mil miles Packards are the backbone of the Fold Field delivery system In addition to i tho the heavy duty trucks a number of rebuilt rebuilt re re- built Packard motor carriage chassis are used for light deliver deliver- There Thore aro are ISO Packard tru trucks kB bein operated b by sir thirty sir department stores in twenty cities Amon Among tho the Jar larger er owners is John Wanamaker owner of stores in New Now York and Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia |