Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-02
STARTS ON LONG TRIP.
b. F. Board Motor Go. Sends Auto
mobile Truck From Here to
Boston.

With load of $500 pounds eX-
clusively of the driver and assistants
the big Board Truck just from the
shops of the B. F. Board Motor Truck
Co. OF this city started at l1:l5 today
on its long trip from this city to Boston.
The truck was taken from here 70 Wash
inston on the ferry boat and promptly
at l 80 today started from the Wash
ington Post building and at 6 O'Clock
next Friday evening it is.'due at tho
Office of the Boston Globe, in Boston,
Mass. The Board Motor Truck Com
pany makes several models ranging
in size from l to 10 tons. The truck
which started on the 500.mile journey
today was one OF 8 tons capacity. Not
only is it proposed to cover the oOO
miles between Washington and Boston
at an average of 100 miles per day,
but it will carry 5000 pounds OF
freight and three men. The freight
consisted OF load OF barreled vinegar,
from the BoardArmstrong Co., OF
Alexandria, consigned to one Of their
customers in Boston.
"Of course every one realizes that
this is what is known in motoring
circles as publicity stunt, as long
hauls in motor trucks are unnecessary
at the present time" said one Of the
officers Of the company but we are do
ing this for no other reason than to
show the public at large, and the mer-
chants ini particular, just what our truck
is capable OF doing. We have the idea
tnat our product is rs good MS any OF
them, and believe it will do what is
promised; anyhow, we have the nerve
to announce beforehand the running
schedule, and what we propose to 60,
and wc hope that every business man
vii! be interested, az the trip will be
made to prove that the motor truck Is
superior in every way to the horse
drawn vehicle.
Throughout the entire run an Official
OF The Washington Post will beIon the
truck acting in the capacity of observer.
Every night when the truck arrives at
the night stop he will send to The Post
true account Of the days run, num-
Grating, il any, the dement's as we'll as
the merits of the days run.
Tonight will be spent in Baltimore,
Nd; the second night in Philadelphia,
Pa. the third in Now York. the fourth
in Springfield, Mass, and the fifth and
Loot in Eoston Mass
The route followed will be via Laurel,
Baltimore, Belair, Elkton, Wilmington,
Philadelphia. Bustleton, Trenton, New
Brunswick, Jersey City, New York. New
Rochelle, Bridgeport, New Haven,
Hartford, Springfield, aud Worcester
to Boston. The roads which will be
traversed are as whole good, but it is
anticipated that the Contec stretch,
which lits between Washington and
Baltimore. and the y miles OF deep,
shifting sand the other side of the Sus-
quehanna river will give the truck 6
stiff trial.
r. B. Bassett of this city drives the
truck with the automobile editor OF The
Washington Post as obseryor, and E..
K. Callahan, sales manager OF the
Board Motor Truck Company, as the
extra passenger.
In a seven-passenger Pierce-ArroT
touring car, which will act as convey
to the truck, will be G. S. Hinkins,
secretary OF the company.
After finishing the five days lun il
Boston. the truck will return over the
same route, stopping in several OF the
large cities for demonstrating pur-
noses