The Detroit times., 1913-02-22
MOTOR TRUCKS,
TOO, APPEAL TO
IMAGINATION
Rob Speeders and LimOusines of
That Which They Have
MOnopOitsed
MOTOR BUSES PART OF
CHICAGO EXHIBITION
Are Being Used for Street Cars
in Cities Disguised With
Car Lines

A false impression exists in the
minds OF the public in general that
the motor truck show in Chicago next
week Will bear no comparison with
this weeks exhibition OF pleasure
cars in the Coliseum and First Req
ment armory in the matter OF inter
esting features. Writers and others
identified with the motor truck in
this belief, because they have been
very assiduous in emphasizing the
unitarian and economic phases OF
the commercial vehicle development.
But in doing 80 they have allowed the
public 10 overlook in a large degree
the phases Of the movement that APP
peal TO the imagination OF every man,
woman and child and to the esthetic
and humanitarian sides OF their ma
lures
Touring cars and runabouts and
limousines make their appeal TO the
Imagination by their speed, beauty
and luxuriousness, but the CONNER
cial vehicles are going TO have a
greater and broader influence on the
lives of every American in the years
to come than the pleasure cars. The
display next week will reflect this
strongly by the variety OF vehicles
shown and their wide application TO
different uses. Side by side will be
seen fire apparatus and ambulances
for saving life and property, and
motor hearses and funeral cars for
transporting TO their final resting
places those OF us who never will
have further use for pleasure vehi-
Giles.
Every lover OF animals will see in
the motor trucks and delivery wagon
the eventual liberation of the horse
from arduous servitude TO an I'M
grateful master and will look forward
eagerly TO the day in the near future
when the common sight OF overload
cd horses struggling frantically I'm
der the lash 10 ascend steep and slip
perry grades will be fading memory
only.
AS the visitor to the show passes
up and down the aisles looking at
the splendid array OF vehicles for
every purpose, he will draw a mental
picture OF smoothly paved streets
free from disease spreading filth and
dust: OF swift procession OF power
wagons passing without any nerve
racking clatter OF hoofs and steel
tires over granite block pavements,
and OF odoriferous and hy-breeding
stables transformed into modern
sanitary garages.
Everybody with a dime or a nicke
to spend for carfare will see in the
motor bus an opportunity for better
facilities in localities
now poorly served by street cars ana
Il chance 20 relinquish the strap for
a seat on his way to and from work
America is far behind European
countries in the use OF motor buses.
but the example OF London. where
the 200 motor omnibuses now carry
more passengers annually than the
Trans will not long be overlooked
by enterprising capital in this coun-
try One New York company Is al
ready operating successfully more
than 100 motor buses on Fifth-ave
routes that carry "a passengers each
and run on about a one-m.nute head
way.
II Is n common observation this
week that the private pleasure cars
have become so standardized i'm prin-
ciple and general lines that one has
10 look TO upholstery and appoint
ments for novelties and improve
ments to admire This Is far from
being the case with the business
vehicles and II will be many years
before these machines will lose the
popular interest that always attaches
to the novel and spectacular Even
though the chassis becomes stand
there will always be special
body constructions 20 adapt the ma
chimes To special purposes This de- |
veopment will be particularly notice
able At this show. where unique re- j
movable bodies and power-operated
dump bodies will be shown In actual
operation. illustrating admirably how
a fve-ton load az lumber already
made MP in the yard can be hauled
on 10 the truck in minute and de-
posted In an unbroken load on the
ground in even less time, and how a
huge load OF coal or crushed stone /