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Show INTEREST JAVA . IN THE TRACTOR American Built Machine Demonstrated Dem-onstrated in Dutch Settlements Set-tlements j Much Interest has been aroused in Java. 1 ditch l.ast Indies by recent demonstrations of a tractor and trailer train for transput ting twenty-live ; ions of men tiundiec m other cargo at 'one trip. With an Amerli tn-oulll specially designed road tractor drawing draw-ing a string of five or six four-wheel .trailers', tramlonds of sugar cane ware hauled from fields over level roads land Up and flown sleep grades. Vurioua demonstrations also were i made m the streets of Samarang and d iiUOeng, in which the train turned abrupt oomeira and made circles In leuch i arrow bi reels that the tractor almost closed with the last trailer. Bach trailer followed exactly In the , tracks o( the tractor wheels. The i trains aiso wore run backward, the rearmost trailer being used tor steering steer-ing So successful were the demonstra-itions demonstra-itions thai the chief commissioner of police declared there were no olfjec-lioin olfjec-lioin on his part to operation or trader trains, hut on the contrary, hu cwouid support their Introduction. The burgomasters of both cii:es also consented con-sented to their use on tlm municipal roads; the state railwa officials prom-llsed prom-llsed their cooperation, sugar manufacturers manu-facturers in Ivast 'Java placed ordeis within ten daysf or tractors and trail -IcTs aggregating 600,000 guilders in lvalue, and plana were made for establishing estab-lishing a transport service with tractors trac-tors ami trailers between Samarang 'ami the port 01 Sourahaya. This form of transportation wal Introduced In-troduced In lava by H. Y jVjnkhoff, of Sam.ii'ung, a ploneei automobile and tr.uk importer and distilbutor In jthe Iiutch Kast Indies .who has been In tile United States for some time to i place orders for a new type of trailer train for passengci service. His design de-sign calls for stage or bus bodies to ! carry sixty passengers, each bodj supported on two tour-wheel trailei One . two or three such trailers are tu be iiruwn i a tractor, according to traffic :o be carried and gradients client. cli-ent. i ten-. 1 nn the roads A speed of aboul ten miles an hour vvjll be maintained. main-tained. . It Is reported that the government . railway author, ties luv,. alnadv made applications for permission to run trailer passenger trains in all provinces prov-inces of the Dutch iiust Indies. Iurlng one of the demonstrations 1 i '.a soldiers wer transported iii the , mad train, and the general In com- rnnnd ol the East J.u division of the armv said. These demonstrations. Lhave turned out to perfection." oe |