The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-20

The present show is the first of the A. L. A. M. shows in which the Mor- gan product has been displayed as the R. l.. Morgan Company was admitted to the Association of Licensed Auto mobile Manufacturers very recently and is the latest accession to the A. l.. A. M. ranks. A new sliding gear transmission is shown at the Morgan space, as the company fits it's trucks with either sliding gear or planetary transmission, according to the wishes of its customers.
 The Morgan concern built the first heavy motor veh: cle in this country, a big steam engine propelled vehicle that was produced in 1901. This vehi- cle competed in the first commercial vehicle contest ever held in this coun- try, run in 1903 under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America. The truck won a gold medal in the contest and this medal is shown along with the two trophies won by the Morgan gasolene truck last year.
 The Packard company which was one of the first of the American firms making passenger carrying cars to take up the production of commercial l vehicles, has an elaborate display Of it's big trucks. One of the most in cars shown is big lumber truck, that has tra Ter behind it that has regu- lar steel shod wagon wheels
 The Peerless concern is making it's debut as a truck misunderstanding com- pany at the present show. The big Cleveland company, which has made great name for itself in producing shows two sizes of freight carrying ve- hicles. One of the Peerless trucks has a carrying capacity of three tons and the other has a capacity of four tons. Both of the Peerless trucks have four cylinder eng nes, of the long power and will drive either truck. loaded, at i5 miles an hour.
 Several manufacturers of dynamos for the electric lighting of automobiles held a meeting Tuesday at the Garden for the purpose of establishing standard form of motor base for dyn- amo electric light systems used in ent are to ask automobile designers to provide a base on their motors so that any standard form of dynamo may be applied in practically the same way that provision is now made for magnetos. Lamp bases, connecting plugs and switches will be standardiz- ed to simplify the application of com plete electric light system. Unusual interest has been manifested in the electric light system and 1t is matter of only short time when the sys- tenn will advance from the accessory class and become an integral part of the car or chassis.
 In New York there is man who de- livers five ton safes without the aid of an assistant He drives for a prom inent safe manufacturing company. The feat is made possible by the use of a five-ton Sampson freight motor which the company owns. All the driver has to do is to adjust the tac- kle and blocks at loading and unload ing times. Between times, he operates the truck. Raising and lowering of the safe are taken care of by a wind less operated by the motor of the truck. So instead of the famil ar scene of two to four men juggling for half hour at the windless. the driv- CT has only to set the motor of the truck in operation. Delivery is expe- dited at every turn. The motor driv- en windiass lifts the five-ton safe at the rate of twenty-five minute. In from three to ten minutes the safe Is raised. This truck is used to haul heavy safes. It also trucks all sub- urban deliveries It travels at the rate of ten miles an hour in contrast to the two to three miles an hour gait of horses. As an example If what this