The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-27
TO BRING CARS TO
CHICAGO THIS WEEK
Some Local Cars in the New
York Show.-Others En-
ter Chicago Exhibit.
ENTHUSIASM is SHOWN
Forward Strides in Design
and Construction.-New
Models and Makes.

About two hundred of the new and
improved models of motor trucks and
delivery wagons that were exhibited
last week during Part II, of the New
York automobile show by fifty-one
manufacturers, will be brought west
this week and next week be displayed
in Chicago. Besides these, twenty
five other manufacturers who did not
take part in the eastern show are
rushing work at their factories on
nearly one hundred other models to
be shown for the first time in the
western metropolis during the second
week of the Chicago show, from Feb
ruary 10 tc Is. Some local cars were
entered in the New York show and
some will be sent to Chicago.
AS usual, the display IN the Coli
scum and First Regiment Armory will
be larger and more varied than the
one just closed in Grand Central Pal
ace and Madison Square Garden in
New York city. More than seventy
five makers will expose nearly three
hundred types and models of the most
vehicles, ranging from power delivery
wagons of 500 pounds capacity listing
at $500 to ten-ton trucks and special
motor fire engines costing upward of
$500.
Newspaper men and others who
have been in attendance at the east
ern exhibition are enthusiastic over
the remarkable showing made by the
industry and predict that the coming
display in Chicago will be a revela-
ton to the public. Great forward
strides in design and construction
have been made by the commercial
vehicle builders as a whole, and the
grange of application of the power We
hicle has been extended into many
new and unique fields. There will
be half a dozen or more pieces of
motor fire apparatus, post-office trucks
for handling parcel post and other
mail matter, light and heavy trucks
built for various departments of city
government, such as police patrols
and ambulances, board of health, park
department and street cleaning trucks
and special vehicles for all sorts Of
mining. numbering, expressing, man
ufacturing and merchandising enter
prses.
The coming show will be of great
popular interest because there will
be many action exhibits, in which
dump bodies for contractors and coal
dealers will be shown in operation,
run by electric motors to show how
the loads are dumped by the mechan-
ism of the truck itself. A prominent
feature of the show will be the many
special bodies for the lumber, coal,
department store and other lines of
business, most ingeniously contrived
to permit one body to be left for
loading while another body already
loaded is run upon the chassis and
hauled away to deliver the load. Sew
eral makes and styles of tractors,
both gasoline and electric, will be
shown, with trailer bodies attached,
some with capacity up to ten tons.
All reports of attendance at a
truck show are almost certain to be
broken. Many more persons attended
the New York show last week than
the winter before, ana the manage
ment of the Chicago show has been
receiving many letters from all parts
OF the central and western states an
nouncing that the writer's intend Wis
fling the display and were considering
the purchase of motor trucks and de-
livery wagons. Some specified the
kind and number they expected to
buy. Among these are a number of
letters from fire chiefs and other
city officials. reporting that the au-
thorities were in the market for fire
apparatus and that large appropria-
lions ware to be made for it's pur-
chase.
There 10, in fact, every indication
that many sales will be made during
the show and shortly afterward as a