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Show FREIGHT BILL FOR 1928 NEAR FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS: Striking evidence of tho heuvy demands de-mands made annually on tlio railroads rail-roads by automobile manufacturers came to light yesterday with tlie announcement an-nouncement of C. R. Schnrff, general gener-al traffic director of Chevrolet Motor Company, that the company's freight bill for 1928, representing inbound and outbound shipments for 10 domestic do-mestic plants, totalled more than $40,000,000. This was an increase of more than $11,000,000 over the 1027 bill. In making the announcement, Mr. Scharff, revealed that the 1928 bill covered the movement of 272.3G8 carloads of freight, totalling 7,908,-047,324 7,908,-047,324 pounds. Exclusive of this poundage Mr. Scharff declared there was an additional 221,403,427 pounds of less than carload freight, 4.7C7,-783 4.7C7,-783 pounds shipped by express and 331,040 driveaways. These figures show the immense increase in the company's business. Last year the company manufactured manufactur-ed the unprecedented volume of 1,-200,000 1,-200,000 automobiles. This year will see an output realized of 1,35,000. These figures indicate that the auto- mobi'.u inani:;'ueL'..ii.-i s are among the :jLiioiidj' tt'.:i I Of cur lo'.iii ioij;iit ahipnieuts lor last year 111 ,0b7 carloads wore 1:.-Ixiuiid 1:.-Ixiuiid ar.d l';i,2Kl outbound. The jUiliourul ii.pi.ici..:; .ncludeil iinisheii uuloinoljilis and o'J4,801,171 pound.s of export traffic. Mr. Scharff in conclusion complimented compli-mented the railroads on their splendid splen-did cooperation and constantly increasing in-creasing efficiency. n |
