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Show MOTOR MOTIONS The latest automobile agency to be placed in Salt Lake is that of the Ford, which was secured this week by A. H. Meredith, one of the pioneer bicycle men of the city. Charles Hendy of Denver, Den-ver, the western agent of the Ford company, after a careful investigation, gave Mr. Meredith the inter-mountain agency for the company and in doing to he undoubtedly placed his company's Intel In-tel ests here in very capab'.e hands, as Mr. Meredith Mere-dith is recognized as a competent, reliable dealer whose personal guarantee of whatever car he handles han-dles would go a long ways toward selling that car. Frank Libby will be associated with Mr. Meredith in placing the Fords on the local market. The Utah Motor Car company is impatiently awaiting the anival of its Packard three-ton truck, which left the Packard factory billed through to Salt Lake several weeks ago. The trucks are furnished with standard platform plat-form body, with a complete chassis, or with special spe-cial body of any kind to order, and the truck is undoubtedly one of the most popular of the gasoline gaso-line vehicles of its kind on the American market. The Packard company have placed a very largo number of the trucks with such firms as Marshall Field & Company of Chicago, the National Conduit Con-duit company of New York, the Singer Sewing Machine company, Simmons Hardware, and Wana-maker, Wana-maker, of New York. Forty-eight miles in 1 hour and 35 minutes over the gumbo loads of Iowa in March is a record rec-ord even for E-M-F 30 and this car is renowned for its conquering Iowa gumbo last year when it laid out the route for the Glidden tour. This latter record was made by J. J. Russell, Cedar Valley, last week, when he took a reporter and photographer for the Wat3 'loo Times-Tribune out to view the terrible railroad wreck that occurred oc-curred between eCdar Rapids and Waterloo, in which forty-eight persons were instantly killed and thirty six wounded. t While l'epiesentatives of other papers wore waiting for a special train which was being made up in the yards, the Times-Tribune reporter called up the E-M-F agency, with the result that they were at the scene of the wreck before the railway rail-way train was well under way, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the gumbo was hub deep and the roads in a very bad condition all the way. The motorist can reduce very greatly the rate of wear of his coil vibrator points by periodically reversing the direction of current flow through the system. |