The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-04
BLUE RIBBON
 GARAGE SHOWS
 NOVEL TRAILER
Arcadia Heavy Trucks Play Big Part In This Years
 Exhibit.

Before the war; 1t used to seem a ton, but now it's not so far back in
 the past before the war heavy duty, l freight hauling trailers, for opera tion behind motor trucks. were just becoming known to the trade, and
 were received by some truck build CTS and some truck operators, with
 grain of doubt. Could 1t be done?
 Would the truck pull a heavier load
 than it would carry? Of course it
 would, but a lot of us "come from
 Missouri"
 Then war was upon us. Railroads
 were too few, too far apart and of
 too limited capacity. To quickly and
 efficiently overcome the condition,
 and to move the implements of war
 and the men 10 operate them, the
 Motor Transport Corps was organiz-
 ed, and with the trucks went trail
 CTS. It was a call for trailers and
 more trailers, trailers for cargOes, trailers for men, trailers for tire re-
 pair shops, machine shops, ambU- lances, repair parts for aerOplanes,
 moving kitchens, for carrying cannon and ammunitiOn-in fact tTailers were built to fit the needs of prac-
 ticalIy every department of the army. Then the war came to a close, and, as Q ''by-prOduct' the trailer idea was firmly imbedded in the minds of those who handle transportation problems that it is just as reasonable
 to tow trailer behind a truck as it Is to tow a, freight car behind a loconlo- tive.
 It is not every hauling problem that can be made successful by the use of ! @ Tz7-afJ JHr. FF7r ia ro day doing work at a loss or scarcely breaking even that can quickly turn a profit if a. Trailer is used The ad- ditional expense because of hauling Trailer is very small while the ton mage carried is more than doubled. Your ftve-tOn truck has a drawbar pull of over 4,000 pounds in addition to the power required to handle it's full load, while it takes but from 250 pounds on a level road to 1900 to 1900 pounds on a grade, to pull q
 five ton Trailer load, still leaving a large surplus of power in the truck. Why not use this extra power? Sim pie, when you come to think of it. Locomotives are but trucks, while the cars are the traiIers, with the only advantage being that they can run on a track. And they have to labor under the expensive disadvantage of not pelpg aDLe 10 run except where there is q, track.
 To make Trailer successful it must be built up to the standard of ] the trucks; otherwise the trailer will 1 reduce the truck to the cheap trailer 1 standard Some people have tried to
 make a trailer out of their horse 1 drawn vehicles, and have failed. The 1 horse drawn wagon cannot safely run at the motor truck speed. The result 1 is either a broken trailer and a dam l aged load, or the loss in time by the 1 truck running slew enough to keep within the limit of horse -darwn veht- 1 cIes.
 1 Knowing all these points and being l desirous of keeping at the head of l the procession, the Blue Ribbon Ga
 rage of Bridgeport has taken on the i of the high grade, heavy duty type l of traiIers now being built to meet 1 the requirements of service behind a 1 motor truck, and have placed one of 1 the traiIers in the show for this week l Arcadia heavy duty, freight hauling l Trailers are built fully up to the &
 4. F. standard of modern truck. prac- tice, with taper roller bearings knuckle steer axles, high grade
 springs, we'll pushed. in fact every 1 thing that goes to make a. modern 1 truck.
 See the exhibit this week Then perha ps you will want to traiIerize
 your truck transportation.