Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-09
WITH SALESMEN AND USERS OF CAR
TRUCK BOOM FOR
1872 IS ASSURED
Demand for Commercial Cars
Will Exceed Present Number
by 5000.

The production of American-made motor
trucks and delivery wagons during 1872
will exceed by 5000 the total number OF
such vehicles in use in this country to-
day, according to the Power Wagon, a
Chicago motor truck journal. In its Is
sue for December this authority on motor
road transport gives some startling hg-
ures, which, If they were not backed up
search, would seem ridiculous. Yet II must
he admitted that the estimates seem
plausible and even conservative, in view
of the violence given. Says the Power
Wagon:
The number of commercial motor trucks
and delivery wagons at present In service
in the United States is a little over 20
600. A year from now-bar unforeseen
conditions-there will be $1,000 machines
In service, meaning a production for next
year of $4,000 machines, worth about $62,-
100000. BY the end of 1918 there will be
in service abput 81, 900 machines, valued
at $500, 600, 600. The production for 1913 will
thus be 10000 power wagons, worth $lW'
00o.00 90.
THESE figures give some idea of the
present and contemplated investment IN
motor truck in this country; They are
not mere idle guesses or prophecies. Ihey
are based on the producing power OF the
power wagon factories already in exist
ence. of the plans now building and those
for which real money has been appro,
priated, and on the carefully estimated
capacity of the business world to absorb
machines in these huge numbers. as IN,
Q1tdIeQ DY IHe DTtStlt IdlG VI buN iLS 49,
by the announced intentions of substan-
tial concerns to motorize their transpor
tation equipment in the near future.
I'm it's last issue the Power Wagon pun
lished particulars of some of the recent
big orders. The Packard Motor Car Com
pnny has sold two single lots OF fifty
machines each. Dennis Bros Ltd an
company that already had 60 Dennis motor
vans In service. The Grabowsky Power
Wagon Company sold AZ machines IN one
hooked an order for q motor trucks In one
lot. To these are added an order for 80
electric trucks which the Baker Motor
has booked with the American EXPRESS
Comnany. and an order for q. Speedwel
gasoline machines: of four to six tons ca
ice COMPANY, of Cincinnati. The pur-
chase price of these % machines was
s87. 900. Some of the other orders called
for investme nts Of $500 600 sbs ea graa+ expan-
sion of existing factories in order to keep
up with their orders. and the almost dalls
formation of new companies nv nen o.
capital. keen foresight and splendid busi,
ness ability-these are the results OF the
confidence which the power wagon mas
created for itself during the mast four or
which though still in its infancy is al
ready a remarkable prodigy, Is the be-
ginning of the reward for those long
sighted pioneers who have made the
" hO hAfAF3R
"Exast mathematical ANALYSIS. BASED on
the production of motor wagons for the
years 1909 to 1912 inclusive. verlfes In re
markable manner the estimates for future future
was worried out bv a member Of trc
Power WAGON staff shows that in 1913
classes in service In this country, ana
1901 900 machines by the end Of 1915; The
value OF these machines will he In the
neighborhood of 100000, 900. From 1916
onward the further expansion of the In,
dnstry will be governed by. the natural
increase of road transportation. facilities
and the possible new uses for motor
trucks which may develop from time to
time. In other words. up to 1915 the ex-
panslon of the industry will he In the
nature of a boom: from that time on 1t
will he normal and governed by the nat
ural laws Of normal business expansion.
ANY business man who Is In the habit
of plotting prices of cotton or wheel or
copper or any other STABLE product from
day to day can draw up a similar curve
for the production OF motor trucks or for
the total number Of machines in service
at the end Of each year, He would find
that from 1900 to 1906 the curve Is very