Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-01-24
WORLDS GREATEST
MOTOR TRUCK SHOW

Nearly all the exhibits of motor
trucks and delivery wagons shown by
seventy manufacturers in the two big
New York automobile shows that
closed last week, are on their way
to Chicago automobile show in
special trains. In addition to these
are about score Of exhibits billed
for the Chicago show by manufac-
turers who did not take part in the
eastern displays. This will make the
Chicago show not only the largest but
the only really comprehensive and
representative exposition Of the COM
mercial motor vehicle industry Of the
United States. Eighty different
manufacturers will show their newest
models: Inel9Ssd among these are
more than q score Of makers who
never have made displsys at any
previous show.
Manager Miles of the Chicago
SHOW, and his corps of assistants ar
rived in Chicago last Friday and at
once attacked the work Of supervis'
ing the final details of preparations
for the opening of the passenger car
section of the Coliseum show next
Saturday night January 81. The
commercial vehicle section will open
Monday morning, February S.
The remarkable interest taken in
the trucks at the New York shows
by business men is expected to be
exceeded at the Chicago show.
Heads Of big industrial and CONNER.
cial concerns throughout the central
and western states are planning trips
for the special purpose Of inspecting
and buying busin es vehicles. Sew
eral hundred municipal omcials will
visit the show, as they did last Feb
ruary, to look over the several models
of motor fire apparatus, patrol wa
CONS, ambulances and other types OF
power machines suitable for city
work. Officials Of railroads and cleo
trio power and street railway COM
panies are also evincing a great deal
Of interest In the motor truck.
While the pleasure car show con-
tinues to hold frs place in popular
fancy, there Is no doubt that the COM
mercial vehicle section Of the Chicago
show will be vastly more spectacular
and interesting The exhibits are
more diversified and have a much
wider application to different kinds of
work. Some Of the special forms are
peculiarly interesting. One Of the
makers will show a threewheeled
tractor that can be coupled up to
any kind of horse-drawn fire appar-
atus or truck as a substitute for a
team of horses and haul 1t at twice
the speed and any distance without
fatigue.
Another special machine is dump
;ruck operated by compressed air.
Although the body has a capacity OF
several tons of crushed stone, sand
Dr. other granular materia.. child
,an operate the dumping mechanism
and discharge the load by the open |
ny of a valve on the dash.
A motor "prairie schooner" that
nade the transcontinental journey
rom New York to San Francisco last |
summer will make a peculiar appeal |
o westerners who know something !
u the difficulties Of negotiating roads
vest OF the Missouri.
Several new developments in COM
nercial vehicles will be noted at the
coming exhibition. Among these may
,e mentioned chain cases for protec-
ion Of the side drive chains against
|irt and water, self-starters that obvi-
the need Of cranking the engine
" hand, differenial locks that en-
bile the driver to pull out OF a place
shere only one rear wheel can get
raction on the road, speed governors
n the engines that are enclosed 30
hat the driver cannot monkey" With
hem and removable power plants
uilt on sub.frames. A trend that U
ecoming general Is the placing o.
he steering wheel on the left side
nd the control levers In the center. !