The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-03-13
COMMERCIAL CARS SEEN.
Trucks and Delivery Wagons Now on
Exhibition In Boston.

Boston, March Is. Boston will uncov-
er in Mechanics building, tonight, the
( first commercial vehicle show ever held
in this section. 1t viii supplant the
pleasure car exhibition that has had its
/ innings and came to close last Sat
urday evening. From March Is to 20,
! inclusive. this commercial show will con-
time, and from all indications, it will
rival the exhibit just ended, as draw
ing card.
All OF the elaborate decorations that
proved so fitting setting for the pleas
/ IRE cars win be left in the building
/ where the lmousnes, touring cars, and
runabouts have been viewed by thous-
| ands during the past week, and trucks
for every purpose viii be shown in their
places.
Almost everything in the form of q
self-propelled vehicle for use on the pub
| lie roads will be seen, from a three
wheeled motorcycle with parcels van,
suitable for use by small laundries,
mems furnishing stores, etc. to a 10
ton truck by hauling coal OF large and
heavy materials.
There will be many special purpose
machines, including motor fire apparatus,
patrol wagons, ambulances, hearses ON
uibuses. emergency wagons for street
railways, dump trucks fitted with tip
ping bodies, operated by power from the
motor, trucks equipped with power
winches for hosting purposes, and even
tractor truck for hauling plows in
the field and driving threshing ma
chimes, circular saws. hullers and other
farm machinery.
Prices are as diversified as construc-
tions, and range from as low as so
cents per pound OF carrying capacity to
more than 49, One might take his choice
o. a 1920 horsepower, two-eylindcr gas
oline wagon of 500 pounds capacity,
selling at $3.50 complete, or an electric
delivery wagon Of 1000 pounds capacity
at 50 800. The selection should depend
on such considerations as where the
vehicle is to be used nature of bus
mess engaged in, class Of trade, kind of
drivers employed. and so on.
Interest in the commercial vehicle is
growing rapidly, and predictions were
freely made last week at the pleasure
car show by those in the trade and
out that this branch Of the automobile
industry will in few years exceed in
Importance the pleasure car business.
Largely as a result of the fine display
Of trucks at last years Boston show,
it is believed the number of commercial
motor vehicles in use in New England
increased 80 per cent. in the four sum
mer months last year.
With the hard winter weather we have
Just passed through when ice and snow
often paralyzed horse traffic and the
simultaneous rise in price OF hay and
feed. this rate of increase is likely to
become even larger.
Experiences of horse owners during
the excessively hot weather last July
had telling effect that is counted on by
truck makers to he reflected in the in
terest taken by business men in the
coming exhibition.
Practically all of the largest and most
prominent makers Of industrial and COM
mercial motor vehicles viii have repre-
sentative exhibits at the show. These
will include a score of makes that are
new to the public, never having been
exhibited before at any Of the nation
al shows, and many entirely new models
brought out by well known companies
for 1912 to adapt their lines to a Wild
er range Of requirements as to load ca
pacity In this list, too, the new con-
Germs win be most prominent and will
introduce large number of distinctive
IDEAS IN their newest product.