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Special problems n economical
haulage are being put to the Trailer
Manufacturers’ Association, 110 West
Fortieth street, New York, for solu
tion. The chairman of the board of
directors of a naval stores company
§n the South, which is starting a new
Jogging operation, asks how Lo obtalin
the lowest transportation cost in
hauling large quantities of logs, cross
ties and lumber by the use of trailers
with trucks, tractors or aterpiliar
tractors.
The problem mvolves hauling logs
#:ifteen inches In dlameter and twenty
feet In length, weighing about 1,100
pounds, for distances of one to &
@ozen 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 squipment are being made
through the association,
A mining engineer in Virginia asks
for advice as to the feasibility of
using reversible trallers fitted with
flanged wheels on light tramways
where there are no suitable highways
and where roads can npot be bullt
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There I 8 no apparent reason why
trailers can not be fitted with flanged
wheels and operated on rails in this
way with great economy. The prob
lem s under consideration by mem
bers of the Traller Manufacturers'
Assoclation, who will offer practical
suggestions.
A new ordinance iln New Orleans
requires rubber tires on all motor
trucks and trailers. When this ordi
nance was introduced more than three
HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919.
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
trallers 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
safds 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,
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Some interesting facts in regard to
the early history of the business of
building automobtiles is brought out
by Stewart McDonald, president and
géneral manager of the Moon Motor
Car Company of St. Louis,
“It 18 easy enough,” said McDon
ald, "to build now ears that stand
up, and any manufacturer can se
cure the proper units that make an
automobile and make a fair success.
Due credit, however, is not given to
the early ploneers of the industry
who risked fheir fortunes and their
reputations in developing, inventing,
testing and blazing the way through
the great unknown which has brought
the motor car industry into the pres
ent state of efficiency,
“On the streets today you will see
the Pierce, Packard, Moon, Stearns,
Winton *and but one or two others
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that have lived through the acid test
of early automobile manufacturing. Ii
feel that no little credit should be
given the engineers of the Moon Com
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!
first left hand drive and steering
wheel car in this country, in 1901,
They continued to build right hand
drive cars, but advocated the left
hand. Today all manufacturers use
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
back 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.”
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 s&pot 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 afl
the materials to be procured. It mkesl
considerable time for-the automobile
manufacturers to reach the full run
ning capacity necessary to enable
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
passenger cars, 400,000 trucks and
200,000 tractors. The demand for mo-
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insulation and adjustable gap is made for the
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it won't burn out, it won't wear out.
You need not remove it from the motor for
cleaning. If the firing point becomes foul, merely
turn the uppeér electrode two revolutions with your
fingers, start your engine and your carbon will burn
off. You can see the adjustment through the open
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Fifty inches of the finest Argentine Mica are
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ATLANTA DISTRIBUTORS
THOS. E. SCOTT SALES CO.
M. H. KARNES, Gen. Mgr.
Southern Distributors
Healey Building ATLANTA, GA.
toreycles and motor boats is also ins
creasing.
The majority o fthese vehicles are
made up of assembled parts, each
part Trepresenting, in many in
stances, the entire output of a modern
factory. For instance, to make the
‘“‘magneto” which generates the cur«
rent for the dependable electric
‘uparks which fire the gas in the en«
gines of the best automobiles, this be
ing the source of power to make the
cars go, there are several factories
each equipped with machinery worth
about a million dollars, each émploy=
ing thousands of skilled workisen,
each having a weekly capacity of
from 2,000 to 10,000 finished and fully
tested magnetos, worth from S6O to
$76 each.
Ninety-seven per cent of the motor
trucks and about 99 per cent of the
motor tractors have magneto igni=
tion. These types of vehicles are used
for heavy work and rough ground and
nim“ have the sturdy magneto igni=
tion.
This infant-giant, known as theé
automotive industry, has grown in
twenty years to be the third largest
in the United States and influences
the prosperity of nearly every induge
try and trade in the civilized world.