Show 2— B THE OGDEN Still a Bad Boy Motor Truck Output 450000: Mark By A J BROSSEAU President Commercial Car Division National Automobile Chamber of Commerce expansion In CONTINUED rapid motor trucks prevailed during 1927 with the truck finding an ever increasing sphere "of usefulness as the chief agency of local distribution and collection of freight For the third successive year truck production- was in excess of 450000 j reaching: an estimated This total fof 192? of 464000 record of success in the manusince no other exfacturing field planation can be provided for the adding bt so jmany piece5 of equipment to the! 2700000 in use on Vico - 927 1 January progress has also been made In adapting the motor bus to the transportation needs of the country Bs registration has reached a total of about 80000 'units in operation on January 1 £928 aus compared with 80000 a year ago This total is not large as compared (with automobile and truck registrations but to be appreciated in j its full significance must be comlpared with statistics of operating: (units in the electric In the heyday railway industry of the trolley after two decades of expansion! about 100000 were ' in use From ithe jtruck manufacturing point of vlewl two trends in particular marked the year First as the demand f Orilgh-spee- d r pneumatic tired vehicles and second increasing conservatism in iellmg methods Both had a pronounced effort upon the market and the latter brought in portents of better business ' years to come The ilernand for Increased speed Is partly a reflection of the intensity of frlodern business competition and partly the result of traffic conditions There seema to be an increasing dispostion on the part of statef motor - vehicle commissioners tbj insist that trucks must keep up with and not retard the flowj of other traffic on the highways Annoyance to drivers in shifting gears on hills and resulting! increased cost of maintenance are bther factors More and mors heavy trucks are being equipped with pneumatics in an effort to checjk the trend toward lighter vehicles so equipped Conservatism- in selling methods has followed a period of "production" selling under the theory that the lower overhead made possible by quantity production was sufficient! to warrant a- considerable volume of risky selling Whatever the merits of this theory may be t there remains no doubt in the' Itruck Industry that the pendulum toward it swung much too far Conservatism of the past year in selling hag been largely in the granting expressed ' of credit Not much business ha been sought at terms of less than 25 per pent down and the Steady1 1 'j - - ! - i 11 " "' ' !" rm& s'-- w i —— i - — - m j i fJ : -s- uccessors - - - I ii r r t?? j 7 SHOOTS HUSBAND BERLINfBy The Associated Press J— Because her husband did not buy her an Easter egg iFrau Gertrud Speer aged 26 fired a revolver at him wounding htm seri V ously: At the trial only Just concluded owing to the husband's slow recovery it came out that the marriage which was only a year old had not been a success The climax came when the husband last Easter bought a present for himself but nothing for his wife "Not even an egg did he' give' me" she walled "and that ' made me mad" f Frau Gertrud also said she didn't know that a revolver fired from a distance could be so dangerous The court sent her to prison for 10 months 7 4" sir C X jsl i: — "1 i Because of the modern hard pavements it is advisable to keep TV" chains on the tires only when Chains on dry pavenecessary Little Mildred Marcla Jfinkenfeld of New York City is a perfect baby ments are harmful to the tires make uncomfortable riffling are a and all that but she loves her cakei Mildred is showh after she had strain on the engine and wear out tasted a piece the other day tm the occasion of her first birthday party She's making herself right at home faster The exception to this is the case of rubber chains! a dance any patlcular shape of DUOHESS OF YORK or shade of color for a dress BANG I BANG! SOCIETY LEADER hat "What musical inst!rumint An no sooner does the duchess appear you play in the Jazz band?" or the other than it Imme LONDON — (By The Associated with onebecomes "I shoot the guns"— Country the fashion and is diately v — Uentleman Press) The Duchess of York has seen here there and everywhere become a leader of fashion in the r The latest dance frocks are being ultra-sma- rt COLOBFUli NOTE younger set of London made rather short but with a small flower pots can be made society since her Australian tour Regular train and society dressmakers as - highly decorative to a room by Whether It be a particular kind sert it is because the duchess has lacquering them in gay Chinese of pin or brooch to fasten her fur appeared on several occasions in red orange or yellow an ostrich feather fan to carry at such a gown ' j wnjj ) i 29 440 X and careful driving will afford the most possible benefit out of the chains and the least possible harm to tires engine or other parts Of the !car In the first place the chains should be put on right They must be loose enough to Allow them to work their way around the tires If they are tight they will stay in one position ! cutting into the casings and causing tire trouble A little play will cause even wear on the tires all suround BaUoon PARIS — (By The 3! I0000mlle3 X -- Associated big hatlonal sending stations and 18 smaller regional ones"!ls !plan-ne- d Parliaby the government ment is considering the problem on which there Is some disagreeh ment "Propaganda will be eliminated': say government spokesmen! but opponents of the idea insist the government on the contrary will be a persistent propagandist— and one of the dullest : Military considerations are at the root of the proposal It is desired to establish in peace the system of sending stations that will best meet war needs so there may be no delay In reorganizing or disciplining the wireless world when war cornea : i a 5 BALLOON Guaranteed It t Press) — Governmental control of wireless broadcasting with three FULL j - FRANGE WOULD CONTROL RADIO J iniiil it S" '' v is lintiilH51 - NO EASTER EGG 1 der" - linn V on chains With motorists might think they are free to speed along the worst sorts of highways with utmost safety The safety may be there but the wear and tear on the Chains and tires won't be Tire chain manufacturers say that drivers should not go faster than 25 miles an hour to get the best out of them Weather conditions alone should compel motorists to keep within this limit "The fact that chains are necessary or advisable" says one maker "Is a warning in itself that high speeds should not be attained and that caution is in or- I -- Why Mildred! Look at You! - f ' SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 8 1928 R ber chains are flat and smooth and therefore do not need to have free plya arouned the tires In fact If applied loosely they are liable to break easily Applied tightly rubber chains will help lengthen the life of the tires - These may be kept on all no matter what the winter weather for they are no bother either in driving or in the way of comfort f ' Np-- 5oaJ you've balance in 12 months and little has been accepted Further reforms ar in I sight in the matter of allowances for used trucks taken in trade OVERSELLING ABSORBED selling methods Theoretically are of little interest to the operating Industry but acutally they are of prims Importance in that part of the industry devoted to Eagerness professional Hauling of manufacturers to obtain volume sales In 1928 and 1928 led to the place of more equipment In this field than there was demand for which in turn led to the acceptance of business by haulers at rates too low to yield a profit and frequently so low as to make It impossible to pay for equipment! obtained from manufacturers on small down payments Decrease In demand for heavy duty truck in 1927 was due to a considerable extent to this tightening of credit and absorption of trucks for which there was little or! no economic need when sold during the previous two years Such trucks should be fully absorbed by now making the 1S28 market much more promising than during the last ! few years PROFESSIONAL HATJLINO Important fas the professional hauling field is it is only a small portion of thf truck operating industry Statistics prepared by the National Automobile chamber of commerce arid based on traffic ni In states made survey many by the United States bureau of public roads indicate that 82 per cent of all trucks fare owned by shippers and used as adjuncts of the main businessf of the shipper 11 per cent are f owned for use under private Contracts with shippers and seven per cent are own1 ed by professional haulers This last group of seven per cent is divided up between a small numChains take a great deal of ber who operate regularly be- punishment during a- winter's tween fixed points at fixed rates usage but they return a proporand on fixed schedules as com- tionate amount to the car mon carriers land a larger number On a 30x440 tire it has been who are in ihe general trucking pointed out a cross link hits the business most of them as pavement 660 times in a mile pf th4 city teamsters and "When the car has gone100 miles each cross link has come into draymen of several decades ago Further studies made public contact with hard pavement or during the Ipast year indicate ice 66000 times that the 270p000 trucks in serAdd to this the strains of brakvice on January 1 1927 were ing starting and pulling and litowned by more than 2000000 in- tle mors may be expected of re them dividuals and corporations vealing clearly for the first time In return for this hard usage how widely scattered truck own the chains take their revenge out ership is Statistics for fleet op on the tires force the engine to eration show! slightly leas than work harder and can rip holes 1000000 trucks owned by 270- - into the fenders 000 individuals and corporations That Is of course if the driver averaging lese than four trucks to is careless about them a fleet The 10r lealding uses of motor Proper attachment of chains withi the number trucks of trucks used in each field as In dicated from a study of 1300000 General trucking 70785 trucks are a follows: Oils and gasoline 55428 R F D owners 248296 Lumber and logging 60978 Groceries food products 147810 General merchandise 49468 General contractors 83853 Meats and packing 40074 Auto accessories 78262 J Bakeries 40058 STANDARD-EXAMINE- 525 32X4 ai' FULL BALLOON j 0 0 The chains I however must not too loosej or they'll rattle against the fenders when the car goes at any considerable: speed and break easily Furthermore constant tapping of a chain on the same spot of the fender will eventually wear a neat hois there 0 be w i l! In the case of the new ftype of rubber links on the contrary the chains must be applied as tight as possible The tires should be blown to their requisite pressures and then the chains may be ap- Cord 7 f plied tightly The reason for this Is that rub- ! Cord- - I Guaranteed o 12J00O tniles (KSizg 10000 -- Heavy Duty o Sztf O CA 5S 52X4 7eottcm' Anatto Extra t rrsize O then backed up by our ctsorcntco ! 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