New-York tribune., 1911-01-19
CROWDS At TRUCK SHlN
Exhibitors Are Pleased with y,
Mumberof Orders Taken :
WOMEN INSPECT ELECrRr,
Interesting Vehicles Shown /,
Concerns Which Have Lon, .
Been Making Automobile,

The Attendance yesnrday n, ,be a.,
commercial vehicles in Madison G. g.. q
Garden was the largest OF any d.
week. The general public seems 10 :. -
ting Interested in the motor trucks
wagons built Tor special work.
The feature Of thr Attendance
pieeses the exhibitors most is ,ba, ~
few Of the visitors are sightseers W..
the exception Of very small perc4,,'
all Of those who 20 10 the Gards,
elther men looking FOR Commercial
ysnicles adapted for use In their b,s.
or women who go 10 examine the c.
passenger carrying cars that are 60
Some Of the men visitors are interes,.,
the electric passenger cars. but mos,
them have eyes only for the sturdy g,..
lene freight carrying vehicles
The five ton Morgan truck shown 4, :,
Garden on the main floor Is no,
vehicle, but one that has isen In cons,..
use for year and half This truck ~.
two trophies recently, taking flrst pn,s
its class In a truck endurance con,e,, :,
Boston late last year and winning A.
prize in another similar event held IN n,
city Z few weeks after the Boston ,,-
test
The Morgan concern built the first hear
motor vehicle I'm this country, big sta.
engine propelled vehicle that was produ,.,
in 1901 This vehicle competed in the a.,
commercial vehicle contest ever hen 9
this country, run in 1903 under the ausve,,
OF the Automobile Club Of America. p,
truck won a gold medal in the contes, s,I
this medal is shown with the two ,rophk,
won by the Morgan gasolene truck hS
year.
The Packard company, which was one q
the first of the American firms maki,g
passenger carrying cars 20 take I'D u,
production OF commercial vehicles has A.
elaborate display Of its big trucks. One Z
tho interesting Packard cars shown Ia
big lumber truck that has a trailer behi,
1t mounted on steel shod wagon wheels
The Peerless concern is making is de5s
0s a truck manufacturing company at L.
present show. The big Cleveland compsr.
which has made 4 great name for itself Z
producing passenger carrying cars shou
two sizes OF freight carrying vehichs On,
Of the Peerless trucks has a cauyits
capacity OF three tons and the other |,
capacity Of four tons. Bdh OF the Pee
less trucks have four cylinder engines, 4
the long stroke variety that dove.g
thirty-two horsepower. and will drn
either truck loaded at fifteen miles an hos
Louis j. Speare, former president Of T.
American Automobile Association, wh.
was in the Garden yesterday, IN speaking
OF the motor truck business said:
although l realize thai the pleasure car
industry Is still in its infancy. that the
cream has not yet been all skinned, I, I:
necessary for the live dealer 70 have bis
feet placed on both sides OF the bridge, II
the pleasure car field the dealers VITO
secured the agencies for good cars are Tie
ones who were successful, and ! am SUE
that this will apply In a greater degree %
the commercial vehicle. which undoubtetY
will be the big end of the Industry"
Several manufacturers Of dynamos 70,
the electric lighting Of automobiles held .
meeting yesterday at Madison Square Gar.
den for the purpose OF establishing 3
standard form Of motor base for dynana
electric light systems used in motor car
The manufacturers present at the meetas
are 10 ask automobile designers 70 pronts
a base on their motors so that any stand
ard form OF dynamo may be applied Il
the same way that provision k
now made for magnetos. Lamp bsses
plugs and switches will b
standardized 10 simplify the application o.
electric light systems.