The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-24
AUTO WAGON COSTS
LESS THAN HORSES
Manufactures Tells How Econ
0mieS in Deliveries Can
Be Accomplished.
SERVICE Is BETTER, TOO
MORE WORK CAN BE DONE SAT-
ISFYING CUSTOMERS.
SERVICE is BETTER, TOO

"The logical method OF transporta-
ton in the commercial world is the
power wagon" says Max H. Grabow-
sky. president of the Grabowsky Power
Wagon company of Detroit. Mich.
For trucking and delivering, 1T is
purely a mechanical proposition. 1t is
a machine. Like all other machines IL
can be built to do a given amount OF
work in a definite tins at q certain
cost under any known conditions,
THE cost CT transportation can be
determined Just as logically as the cost
of operating any piece of machinery. 1t
Is merely a question of measuring the
work required-and measuring the
cost, and placing one against the other.
In other words, the owner pays only
for measured service.
Horse Out of Dato.
'"The inadequacy OF the horse In
transportation is beginning to become
evident to all. as 1t has been apparent
to q few. Whatever difference may
have existed in favor OF horse flesh, be-
tween the cost of delivery work by
motor trucks and horse -drawn wagons,
already has been wiped out by the
constantly increasing cost OF feeding
and stabling horses-and the decreas-
ing cost of maintenance or power
wagons.
Motor trucks are being used in in
creasing numbers throughout the en-
tire United States-in fact, all foreign
countries as we'll, particularly by bust
ness firms handling large quantities OF
goods.
"The range of city delivery service
has gradually become extended until
the horse has been found incapable of
covering the necessary distances within
a day, and is practically unfit for serv-
Ice on the following day, whenever ex-
tended routes are attempted.
with more trucks, these routes can
be easily covered with dispatch, max
ing possible an earlier delivery of
goods in districts which previously did
not receive deliveries until the follow
ing day.
"Quick deliveries are always appre-
ciated and assuredly work to advan-
tage Of the concern which is able to
guarantee such service.
Useful to cities.
"In the case of police, fire. hospital
and other official uses, the speed OF
the automobile Is very great advan-
tage. The best proof of this is the
fact that a large number are being
purchased and used all over the United
States by municipalities and individual
officials.
IF merchants IN all lines made a
practice OF keeping separate accounts
of the cost Of their delivery system,
they would become much easier con-
verts to the substitution OF self-pro-
PEELED vehicles for their horse service.
They must concede that stable equip
nent must be maintained whether
business is active or dull, hence the
motor truck represents a great econ
omy.
at is not only fact that the power
wagon has its motor horse within IT.
self-that makes it a space saver in the
streets as well as stable. By reason OF
it's circulation. only one-half the time
for d given amount of work, or ex-
pressing the same facts In other words,
each power wagon replaces from two
to four ordinary horse and wagon COM
btnations. The power wagon does not
get tired in the afternoon, as does the
horse dragging it's load more slugg ish-
ly when the street traffic is at its
height.
1T has been proved that q power
wagon kept in constant service will cut
down delivery cost OF merchants from
20 per cent upward"