Show Ule Sam Orders 1 1 More Ford Trucks I i United States Post Office Dent Det De De- nt et t today placed an order with s Washington Branch of the Ford or r Company for 1500 motor truck o of which will be 4 3 ton capacity and 1000 1 lia tons ing capacity The purchase of motor equipment was the largest e i by the government department n I since the war With this order Ford I Isales sales to the Post Office Department t I I during recent years reached a total of 2900 units I The purchase marked another step in inthe 1 the Departments Department's program of building up its fleet of several thousand trucks 1 I and also to replace some of the surI surplus sur- sur I 1 I plus trucks turned over to the Post PostOffice I Office Department by the Army at the close of the war l I Deliveries are to start immediately I and continue as rapidly as the bodies contracted for fo are ready for tion The completed trucks will then be distributed to some 60 cities thru thru- out the United States The order was placed with the theFord theFord theFord Ford company after an exhaustive test conducted by the Department with Veith the Bureau of Standards The tests were under the supervision of W. W A. A Jacobs automotive engineer of the Bureau of Standards and Willian Williaa of I Chicago and Morris Carrier of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- lyn motor vehicle engineers of th the Post Office Department |