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Show EGG BREAKAGE REDUCED BY ABSORBERS , , c-, .v, , ; : " ri It si I' U J ' I : 'mrj J ; 4- Delivering Butter to a City Customer. . Men, women and children are not the only Iransportiihles profiting by "reluxed motoring" on properly controlled con-trolled automotive springs, It Is dls-' dls-' covered. F. 11. Simon, the head of stuM-. stuM-. lator company of Los Angeles, enumerates enu-merates a long list, Including cookies, flowers, milk bottles, eggs and even mentions dogs and fowls as beneficiaries bene-ficiaries of slubllated easy riding. Lessens Bottle Breakage.. "Milk dealers operating light trucks," he declares, "(Ind that properly prop-erly controlled spring rebound lessens bottle breuknge and speeds up deliveries deliv-eries wonderfully. Bakers have told me a slinllur story. Pies, cakes and .breads, particularly, are perishable mtrchandl.se and can't stand much rough going and coming. Spoiling is negligible, however, If the cur springs are made to behave themselves. Then there are flowers. Florists say that an efficient recoil check reduces very materially the damage to posies and potted plants during delivery." Less Egg Breakage. "And I know a proprietor of a Lankershlm egg ranch," he adds, "who reduced his losses through egg breakage break-age 75 per cent by having his Dodge truck equipped with stabilators. He used to figure his loss from broken hen fruit at about .$1,400 a year. Now, he says, It, is not more than $1 a day, or about '$3it0 a year." Dogs and Fowls. Some one asked Simon what about dogs, poultry and the like, and he confessed that ho didn't have any actual ac-tual testimony from dog owners or hen haulers. But he Insisted he was pretty sure the canines and chicken folks were all very appreciative of "relaxed motoring" wherever they had tried It, and would be glad to say so If they could talk. |
