Arizona republican., 1918-06-02
TRACKLEsS TRAINS
 THAT REALLY TRACK

IL would be a revelation to the lay
 man If opportunity were had to wit
 ness the truly marvellous achieve
 ments these days in the transporta- ton phases of modern manufacturing and distribution. Many kinds of la
 DOT saving, speed-increaSing, and
 cost-reducing mechanical equipment
 are employed Probably the most im-
 portant types are electric industrial
 trucks and tractors, whose success
 has been so pronounced that the sup
 ply, ever increasing, seems never to
 catch up with world wide demand,
 for these electric transportation units
 are employed throughout the world.
 and are more than doing their bit"
 in the great ammunition plants, par
 ucularly where man-poWer has been
 raVlshed by war, and where noble
 women have risen to loftier heights of
 greatness, releasing great numbers of
 men for sterner duties. On the aver
 age, an electric industrial truck will
 release from four to six men, and if
 driven by a woman, as large num-
 bers are, another man is made avail
 able for other wartime work The
 employment of simple mathematics
 gives a good idea of what increases
 in man-power even a few thousand
 of these units make possible. And to-
 day the cry is for men-and more men.
 In addition to some scenes from ammunition plants, both here and 1 lover there,' the writer also has be-
 fore him, many more peaceful views
 showing electric industrial tractors accomplishing seemingly impossible stunts as parts of daily perform ances in helping to speed up produc- tion and distribution. In a cold stor- age warehouse, an electric tractor is seen pulling a train of twelve trail CTS, loaded with eggs, in and out mar TOW aisles and tight places; ne gotiating $" curves and sharp turns with ease-each trailer tracking per fectly. The engineer" in this in | stance, is an old man incapable of | expending much physical force-nor need he in performing his duties | which consist of sitting on q com ! fortable seat and operating the sim pie control of this equipment, which 1 transports the train of fragile freight, safely and speedily. Another view
 shows an electric tractor hauling a four-ton load of forage over mushy | tan bark at the stock yards, while the next dpll 4luolt eitto tlllbNAN | one of these units of all work, pulling an empty railroad freight up to .
 loading platform, thus eliminatin; :. loading delays that cannot be toler ated in these days of stress. Anothe
 photograph shows 'twelveman
 power" job; in a glue factory, tw, !, men per truck required. Now, witt an electric tractor, three loaded trail CTS per train are transported at tWic the previous speed.
 Lumber these days is almost a much in demand as steel. One cleo tric tractor hauls 3,550000 feet 0 lumber a month. This lumber l moveA an average distance of 90 feet at cost of three hundredths o cent per thousand feet of lumber Steel, unfinished and finished in al it's divers forms, is hauled abou foundries, in factories and ware houses, and is finally loaded in rail road cars by these powerful transpor tation units, that each day are con quering new and different assign ments. To even briefly outline som of the major classes of work success fully being disposed of by electri industrial trucks and tractors, woul require far greater space than available.