The Washington times., 1917-09-19
It Is Not Easy to Buy An
Automobile Truck Now
1t Will Be Harder and Perhaps impossible Soon-Because
of Government Demand. If You Need
Truck Get 1t NOW.

Tn one hundred ways the automobile truck blessing
II makes possible better wages for the drverhe can cover
in one day five times much road as with team' ana
haul ten times much weight.
The automobile truck does away with cruelty to animals
The man who stalls his truck engine does not get out and
kick the engine-t would hurt his foot He must scratch
his head and think and discover what foolish things he has
done
The automobile truck adds length to citys streets
In great city of the United States today the carrying
on of business would be impossible horses took the place
of gas engines and went back to the condition Of little
while ago.
Swift motion and high carrying power make room IN
the streetsthe automobile truck is blessing in that way
And incidentally the who sticks to the morse
team he lacks energy does not realize
facts is citizen ageng behind He is neglectng his duty
getting in the way OF others
The automobile truck conquers the slippery streets OF
winter and their cruelty. It conquers the dreadful heat OF
summer and its suffering for horses The automobile truck
is safer than the horserawn vehicle for it be stopped
the driver does not go to sleep on his oadne
dare not
means that you go WHERE you WANT to, WHEN you
want TO- and get there and carry your load 1t means that
the big manufacturer or other business man ne Chooses
achieve independence Of the railroads One big con-
Germ running its trucks between Ohio city and
Boston-who would have believed that little while ago7
The automobile truck means vegetables delivered early
and fresh to ctiehe truck farmer with his motor truck
no longer has his vegetables packed and dragging along for
hours the heat and dust he jumps on his motor
fifteen thirty miles outside of the city starts and
is in the market with his load fresh at the hour that suits
him And when he is through with his selling he goes home
and has saved day for more work on his truck farm
1t would not be difficult to fill this entire newspaper
with detailed itemzed and accurate statements to the
value of the automobile truck and what 1t has donefrom
saving poor animals from suffering to saving prosperous
business large Of money and the annoyance OF
slow transportation.
The fact that impress upon you today is this
you among those that realize the value Of the motor
truck and its necessity and are planning to get one
HURRY UP ABOUT 1T.
One of the biggest makers of trucks in the United States
recently published telegram addressed to big Chicago
firm 1t said 1--WE shall send those trucks fast pos
shly but please take them gradually and be satisfied
It is not possible for to fill our orders
We can name you half dozen makers of important
trucks that will tell you the thing if you give order
this Chicago firm did, for fifty trucksor even for five or
for two
The Government is using up the capacity of the truck man.
uGcturer This is an excellent thing for the people in the
long For the trucks that the Government is buying
for it will peace for its postoice and other work
and save money and give better service.
But for the moment the Government demand for auto
mobile trucks that it is extremely difficult to get
good truck now and it will be almost quite mpossi
BILE to get any good truck in short time Government
orders increase.
What true of the automobile truck also of the
ordinary automobile because the Government is using the
automobile factories to make flying machine engines
And the patriotic manufacturer, whether at loss
profit necessarily says to the Government Your needs and
your orders come first
Some trucks still to be had manufactured before the
broke out put hand and approaching compile
ton
If you want truck NOW or are going to want one in
the of during the coming slippery winter
PUT IN YOUR ORDER.
It will be too late presently.
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