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Show TRM-IKI jtii ram Motor truck manufacturing as an industry in-dustry is now at its highest level in America, and with every indication of j still greater growth, according to Forrest J. Alvin, general manager of the United States Motor Truck company com-pany of Cincinnati. "Government reports," said the general gen-eral manager, "show that 90,576 trucks were manufactured in the United States during the calendar year of 1916, with a total value of $202,250,572. Up to tho end of Juno of this year, reckoning from July 1, 1916, to June 30. 1917, 112,000 trucks had been manufactured of a total retail value of $239,010,757. Tho prediction Ib made than 200,000 trucks will be manufactured manufac-tured In the current year with a value of $325,000,000 to $350,000,000, 'and it may be that this figure will prove too small. "Our experience is such as to indicate indi-cate that the figures will be too small, for if every motor truck manufacturer experiences tho same demand for trucks as' that experienced by us, with corresponding Increases demanded in production, tho figures will go much higher. From a small output we have Increased to that point whore wo now have moro trucks going through at one time on our huge assembling floor than we ordinarily made in a year not so many years ago. This growth with us has been steady and hns bqen due to the demand, and I know that this is the same with other truck makers, for I have talked with many." |