Show SHiP MOTORS ACROSS LAND Durant Company Retains Freight Car for Twelve Lengthy Trips I I Retaining the name acme freight cars carsin carsIn In ne me shippers shipper's service and keep keep- keeping keeping ing them continuously bus might ling go far tar toward firing I ro the tho rail ship ship pint I pint problem sass sa s W A Ross ot of r Read Rows no s I ryno company compan lo- lo local lo local 0 cal dealers delers In rant Di-rant and Star cars It ft Is necessary for lor Durant mot mat mot 01 01 s to keep on the tho road Joad between the Continental Motors corporations corporation's co ons on's panli at Muskegon Michigan and the factories of the Durant Motor of Call Call- Call torna forna at Oakland Calif They greatly a ship ship- shipments meats ments by retaining the Santa t l Fe e freight freight car number In the company's service for or twelve con con- continuous con continuous trips This was a performance unique In rail rall- rall-iw rall Is ere R H ere all freight cars sImilarly handled according to railroad traffic experts no car shortages shor could exist The car was loaded t at Muskegon Muskegon gon Michigan with Continental motors moton Immediately tely upon at the Durant pleat plant In Oakland CalU Calif the shipment was ILS discharged and the car UI again with Bith emp- emp empty emp empty ty motor shipment nt crates It nS thou them routed bad back to Muskegon whore here the s sete ii c was as repeated repented As all of tl-e tl ll a trips tripe were oe- oe oe tween Muskegon and Oakland sla Ia Chicago along that line soon became familiar ft with this cars car's riha expedited Its delivery Tho rho rho of ot this problem of rail shipment Is la not the tho only accomplishment of Durant Motors In that direction Early Darly In the his his- history his history tory ot of o the company compary y railroad rec- rec rec rec for tor single shipments were nude The Tho larget single trans trans- transcontinental transcontinental continental ent of ot motor cars carse e eer or er sent sont from coat co nt t to bs coast In a 0 single train load vas ape as shipped from Lorg Island City CIt New v York to San Francisco It lt was 1 as followed I by trainload shipments of Durant attl Star cars to a nil all 11 Important dis distribution points Uy such a meth meth- method method od distribution problems l were greatly simplified 1 and distrIbutors received ample of ot all mod mod- models mod mod-ela els at nt a single shipping date go 00 I |