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Special problems In ecomomical
haulage are being put to the Trailer
Manufacturers’ Association, 110 West
Yortieth street, New York, for soglu
tion. The chalrman of the board of
directors of a naval stores company
in the South, which ls starting a new
ogging operation, asks how Lo obtain
the lowest . transportation cost in
hauling large quantities of logs, cross.
ties and lumber by the use of trallers
with trucks, tractors or aterpillar
tractors.
The problem involves hauling logw
#ifteen inches in dlameter and twenty
feet in length, weighing about 1,100
pounds, for distances of one to &
dozen miles from the forest to the
mill over flat country and sandy
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the use of much equipment to haul
forest products from several hundred
thosand acres. Recommendations as
to suitable equipment are being made
through the association,
A mining engineer in Virginia asks
for advice as to the feasibility of
nsing reversible trallers fitted with
flanged wheels on light tramways
whore there are no suitable highways
and where roads can not be bullt
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~ There 18 no apparent reason why
trailers can not be fitted with mnm
wheels and operated on rails In
way with great economy. The prob
lem s under consideration by mem
bers of the Trailer Manufacturers’
Association, who will offer practical
suggestions,
A new ordinance in New Orleans
requires rubber tires on all motor
trucks and trallers. When this ordi
nance was introduced more than three
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Cleveland Car Announced
months ago there was considerable
opposition to it by draymen, but they
agreed that if time were given them
to experiment to determine the best
equipment to buy they would with
draw opposition. No protests were
made when the measure was called
up recently for action. A loading
drayman bought six rubber tired
trailers for use with his motor trucks
and found them so satisfactory he
has ordered nine more. As a result
of his trial, he said he was ready to
have the ordinance passed.
Much of the opposition to use of
trailers in cities is due to the opera
tion of heavy steel tired trailers, Such
trailers used in subway construction
work in New York did many thou
sands of dollars damage to new gran.
ite block pavement, the impact of the
steel tires breaking the blocks and
crushing the surfaces. The city en
gineer stated, however, that no dam
age had ever been observed as a re
sult of use of rubber tired trailers.
‘ fSome Mnteresting facts in regard to
the early history of the business of
!hulldlnc automotiles is brought out
,hy Stewart McDonald, president and
|geneml manager of the Moon Motor
‘(,‘a.r Company of St. Louis,
“It 18 easy enough,” said McDon-!
ald, "to build now cars that stand
up, and any manufacturer can se
cure the proper units that make nnj
automobile and make a falr success.
Due credit, however, is not given to
the early ploneersa of the industry
who risked their fortunes and their
reputations in developing, inventing,
!tesunx and blazing the way through
] the great unknown which has brought
the motor car industry into the pres
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l “On the streets today you will see
the Pierce, Packarda, Moon, Stearns,
Winton and but one or two others
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that have lived through the acid test
of early automobile manufacturing. I
feel that no little credit should be
given the engineers of the Moon Comi
pany, who contributed their share, as
the Moon Company is responsible for
some of the most popular and now
fundamental features of motor car
construction. The Moon made the
‘flm left hand drive and steering
iwheol car In this country, tn 1901
They con‘inued to build right h..nd‘
drive cars, but advocated the left
hand. Today all manufacturers w}
the left hand drive, except on export
cars. The Moon was one of the first
manufacturers to go from four to six
cylinders, proving the superiority of
the six over the four for even light
cars. The first full floating axle used
in America was on the Moon car, It
was this Moon car Model O-7 that
won a big race on the Boston race
track,
“In 1913 the Moon car was one of
the first in America to come out with
a full stream line body from radiator
bacik through the body. Moon is also
responsible for the adoption of a
number of other changes of impor
tance in motor car construction,
changes which are now in universal
use in automobile construction.” |
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By G. W. MORRISON.
Upon Inquiring of several promi
nent automobile agents in Automobile
Row, New York, last week whether
they could deliver a new car, at once,
on spot cash order, I was informed
that it was very difficult to get any
new car because there were demands
for 100,000 more than can, now, be
delivered.
\ It is too soon after the war for afll
the materials to be procured. It takes
considerable time for the automobile
manufacturers to reach the full run
ning capacity necessary to enables
them to catch up with the ever-grow
ing demand.
A conservative estimate of the out
put for this year, 1919, is 2,000,000
ipusenger cars, 400,000 trucks and
200,000 tractors. The demand for mo-
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You need not remove it from the motor for
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fingers, start your engine and your carbon will burn
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Healey Building ATLANTA, GA.
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‘torcycles and motor boats is also mj’
creasing.
. The majority o fthese vehicles are
‘made up of assembled parts, each
part representing, In ‘many in
stances, the entire output of a modern
factory. For instance, to make the
“magneto” which generates the curs
‘rent for the dependable electric
sparks which fire the gas in the en
\glnu of the best automobiles, this be~
ing the source of power to make the
‘ml’l go, there are several factories
‘epch equipped with machinery worth
about a million dollars, each employ
ing thousands of skilled workmen,
each having a weekly capacity of
from 2,000 to 10,000 finished and fully
tesied magnetos, worth from SSO to
$76 each.
Ninety-seven per cent of the motor
trucks and about 9% per cent of the
motor tractors have magneto igni
tion. These types of vehicles are used
for heavy work and rough ground and
:p;x:‘t have the sturdy magneto igni=
' Thig infant-giant, known as the
automotive industry, has grown in
twenty years to be the third largest
in the United States and influences
the prosperity of nearly every indus=
try and trade in the civilized world.