The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-21

In aRIs annals of Brfdgeportss com znszxssa history q little booklet that rsas,.d be written by Samuel T. Davis, sA w Robfnson, and James T. Roach teIsa entitled Carrying a Truck to the sAa9emT would probably set a Tar xredsE circulation than ever did the saazo<,zz -sFfessage to Garcia. written bv Eaaeart Hubbard shortly. after the sSnara American war
 SmTmaan2 T. Davis made public last niaaa8 Nar tho first time the efforts or his advance sales guard in England with the Organization behind them sln BridESport which made it possible to ref 95. 00o.60O worth of contracts. with England and Russias AH a result of two Bz1dEApn{feEs pluck an tS sales nnansfzp genius fee only got tbes6 mi lions Of do liars worth or of Arderica as ft has never been boorled before but Robinson was made chief z1tctor-truek inspector of the British government in recognition of his perzzstenc
 According to the story told b Pres adent Davis to more than 220 employees of his company at a dinner that kept the Stratdeld hotel employees up until a late hour, the local manufa curing concern at the outbreak of European hostdl5 tiess as unable to get any for eign orders Try as they might their 
 foreign governments,
 Taking the ba1II by the horns. it was decidedato send Robinson and Roach abroad A three-ton truck and a large four-toT truck were hastily loaded on a steamship leaving New York Rob inson and Roach were sent aboard the steamer They sailed, arriving in Lon don late Saturday night Arrange ments had been made by the Locomos bile Co.'S London agents for demon stration sof a three ton truck to the co1n1nfssfoa gcontro1ling motor truck purchases Of the Russian goVernn ent- When Roach and Robinson arrived in Londo they were told tf1at~the dem onstration would be made at noon on Sunday.
 Somewhere in that thick fog on the Thames river, and amidst thousands of barges, were two trucks of the Lo- comobfle Co. on lighters tsomewh ere in the fog on the Thames it Was said. Though the steamship company's of fees could not give any definite idea just where in that great maelstrom of shipping on the Thames river these trucks might be found, Robinson and Roach were undaunted and began a search of the river that lasted all night and far into the next morning. At Il : o'clock Sunday morning, Robinson and Roach who were aided by Charles Clarke an expert demonstrater o1 Bridgeport has since spent mucf of his time demonstrating the opera tion of trucks to Russian motor-cal drivers found the four-ton truck The tt41ree,' was never found
 So well had the truck been packed for shipment that it required only gas oline in the tank and oil and water tc set it in notion and promptly at noor te truck was before the doors of ths Russian connafssion's office Clarke showed the truck and Robinson ana Roach talked The result was an or der for 200 trucks for immediate de livery to the Russian govern ment- sold from a. four-ton model.
 Next came the demonstration to the English commission as a result of the Russian sales. England wanted a five ton truck that must be tested before the eyes of the con6nfssiou. The four Ion truck immediately becamea a five It was a long chance. but American persistence and saIesmanshfp methods were to put it across
 C1ar1e was put at the wheel. The commission selected touring cars fol themselves and saIesnaen. They rode 30 miles over British roads with more thsnefve tons of pig iron on the truck Finally they came to a hfIL The off. gers stepped the truck and advised the driver that the touring cars would pro. reed ahead. Confdential1y one of the officers told the Americans no truck had ever surfnounted the acelivity aI1t that the drags should be ready to stor a backward rush.
 The truck started upwards, rof1Iy making the effort. Near the top i slowed and finally came to a stop The officers seemed not surprised but toId the driver to give up the effort or ge Eo the bottom again and try with 2 ; running start. Clarke was not per. aurbed He examined the mechanism and found that dirt had gotten into the gasoline. He jum5ed oo the dr4v- er's seat and when he threw in tae
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