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Show Truck Making Calls for Precision in Machinery Motor trucks, in the minds of most people, are associated with brute strength. A rather common supposition supposi-tion is that precision is less necessary neces-sary in a truck than in a racy road ster. for instance, until one is remind ed that the passenger car carries comparatively com-paratively light loads over boulevards and improved highways, and is tenderly ten-derly handled for the first COO or 1,000 miles. Hut a motor truck may find itself in roadless oil fields under heavy loads of machinery the week it goes into service and he expected to plunge Into the hardest toil without prelimi-tiai'l prelimi-tiai'l breaking In. Which situatloL calls for tougher metals, more precise machinery, more exacting factory tests and production methods to a sure satisfactory performance? |