Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-02-07

e-+t- AUTOTRUCK IN OPERATION. III. 4
pressed themselves upon. the public
mind, the scheme in its entirety " to
be unmarked. I'll
James H. Hoadley. president Of the
Compressed Air company. IL quoted %
saying IN regard to the objects and
prospects Of the autotruck company:
1.-THE company Is to be purely an op.
Grating one. The trucks and compress,
ors will be manufactured by the Ameri-
can Wheelock Engine company. at
Worcester. Mass. and by the Interna-
tional Air Power company, which is be-
ing incorporated in New Jersey and Of
which Joseph Letter Of Chicago is to
be president. An existing plant has
been bought by him for $3.o00.000. and
the plant will be in operation within 60
days. The International Air Power
company represents 100000.
Mr.. Letter has interested the Roths-
childs and other European capitalists in
the introduction Of autotrucks, and they
will be first operated In London. to be
followed In Berlin acd Paris. All for
etgn shipments will be made by him.
Edwin ]. Cramp. the Philadelphia ship
builder. is president Of the Wheelock
company" &
The Autotruck company will enter
the field of general trucking, but trucks
will first be operated in the hauling of
coal. Then 1t proposes to take up other
large trucking industries and work
down to the handling of general traffic.
The trucks are to be introduced Inn
mediately after the organization is com.
pleted. The machinery for the central
station for the generating Of the COM
pressed air power IL ready 70. ship,
ment, and there are ready enough
trucks to make beginning. -ls4
Platform trucks for carrying heavy
machinery and trucks with high boxes
for coal. ice or other commodities will
be used. Motormen who operate these
trucks will have a high seat forward,
with q double wheel similar to the AZ.
rangement on q cable chr.
Although these trucks will have a
carrying. capacity Of eight tons and can
be run on smooth pavements as fast az
eight miles an hour, 1t Is asserted that
they can be stopped in their own length.
The promoters Of the autotruck en-.
terprise claim that their vehicles can
haul load Of eight tons Is miles with
out the compressed air big replen.
ished and that one truck viii move =
three horse load with great ease over
wet and slippery asphalt. the particular
bane of the truck horse. without the
slightest difficulty. liz sg%
From sanitary standpoint ana IN
the matter Of cleanliness 1t would make
q great difference to a city II from 150.-
900 to 100000 horses in its streets were
done away with. r.,. ~,
Electricity cannot be used for trucks
designed to carry heavy loads owing TO
the weight of the storage batteries that
would be required. 1t does very well
for cabs and light delivery wagons. but
trucking is another matter. 81
An attempt is to be made to absorb
the principal trucking interests Of New
York city and to gradually replace
horse drays with autotrucks without
antagonizing the present owners. The
plan proposed Is similar to that fol-
lowed In organizing trusts. Separate
interests are to be purchased, and truck
drivers are to become motormen. II
this plan does not work, there will be q
fight between the old methods and ths
new. AL
MARK NORRIS